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Plants for USDA Zone 8

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92 matches for Zone 8

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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
A ripening striped watermelon resting on straw mulch among healthy green vines in a sunny garden bed

Vegetables

Watermelon

Citrullus lanatus

Watermelon asks for more ground and more heat than almost anything else in a home bed, and the two decisions that settle the crop…

Warm-season annual, Zones 3-10
Mature weeping willow on a mown bank beside still water, its long branches hanging in a continuous curtain of narrow pale-green leaves almost to the ground from a leaning furrowed trunk

Trees

Weeping Willow

Salix babylonica

Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) grows quickly to 30 to 40 ft tall and as wide, which is why it looks like a bargain and so…

USDA Zones 6-8
Weigela shrub in full spring bloom with arching branches covered in pink trumpet flowers

Shrubs

Weigela

Weigela florida

Weigela flowers in late spring on wood grown the year before, so the safe time for shaping cuts is right after the main bloom.

USDA Zones 4-8
Wisteria vine with cascading purple flower clusters draping over a wooden pergola

Perennials

Wisteria

Wisteria sinensis

Fight tangled, flowerless vines by giving Wisteria sinensis the structure, light, and pruning it needs.

USDA Zones 5-8