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Plants for USDA Zone 5

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77 matches for Zone 5

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Multi-stem Serviceberry covered in small white star-shaped flowers at a woodland edge, with bluebells and low green perennials in the mulched bed at its base

Trees

Serviceberry

Amelanchier spp.

Serviceberry (Amelanchier) is a small rose-family tree that gives white flowers in very early spring, edible purple fruit in…

USDA Zones 4–9
Shasta Daisy plant in bloom in a garden setting

Flowers

Shasta Daisy

Leucanthemum x superbum

Shasta daisy is a clump-forming perennial grown for clean white petals, yellow centers, and reliable summer bloom in sunny…

USDA Zones 5-9
Purple-leaved smoke tree in a mixed border with its whole crown veiled in airy pink feathery plumes, backlit by low afternoon sun, with lawn to the left and coneflowers to the right

Trees

Smoke Tree

Cotinus coggygria

Smoke Tree (Cotinus coggygria) gets its name from thousands of hair-covered flower stalks that blur into a pink haze above dark…

USDA Zones 4-8
Yellow squash blossoms and developing squash fruit on broad garden vines

Vegetables

Squash

Cucurbita spp.

Grow Squash by deciding whether you want tender summer fruit or mature winter storage fruit, then matching space, pollination…

Warm-season annual, USDA Zones 3-10
Sweet potato vines with heart-shaped leaves spreading across a raised garden ridge in full sun

Vegetables

Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

Sweet Potato grows from rooted slips rather than seed tubers, hides its entire crop under a vine mat until harvest, and only…

Warm-season annual, Zones 3-10
Mature sweetgum on a suburban lawn in autumn with crimson-purple foliage on one side of the pyramidal crown and orange-gold on the other, fallen star-shaped leaves scattered below

Trees

Sweetgum

Liquidambar styraciflua

Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) is a fast 60 to 75 ft native shade tree with star-shaped leaves and the best multi-color fall…

USDA Zones 5–9
Close view of tall fescue turf blades in a home lawn.

Lawn Grasses

Tall Fescue

Festuca arundinacea (Schedonorus arundinaceus)

Homeowners across Zone 3-10 lean on Tall Fescue for a cool-season lawn that stays green without babying it every weekend.

Zone 3-10 (cool-season performer)
Ripe red tomatoes hanging in heavy clusters on a staked vine in a sunny garden bed

Vegetables

Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

The choice between a determinate and an indeterminate Tomato decides your support, your pruning, and whether the crop arrives all…

Warm-season annual, Zones 3-11
Viburnum shrub with white flower clusters and broad green leaves in a mixed border

Shrubs

Viburnum

Viburnum spp.

Viburnum is not one shrub habit. The right species decides whether you get fragrance, berries, fall color, a screen, or a…

Zone 4-9