USDA Hardiness Zone 8
USDA Zone 8
Fruit bushes, berry plants and trees rated for zone 8, where the coldest night of the year averages 10°F to 20°F.
- 10°F to 20°Faverage coldest night
- 56plants for this zone
- 8a and 8bthe two half zones
Bluebonnets in the Texas Hill Country, near Burnet. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress
Plants for zone 8
- Zone 8a, 10°F to 15°F
- Zone 8b, 15°F to 20°F
This is not the official USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. We drew it from the 2023 USDA and Oregon State University zone data and smoothed it to fit the page. Look up your exact zone by ZIP code on the USDA map.
About zone 8
- Coldest night of the year
- 10°F to 20°F on average
- Where it is
- Most of South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, more than half of Texas, and the lowlands of western Oregon and Washington.
- Cities and towns in zone 8
- Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Birmingham, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas and Washington, D.C.
- In our nursery
- 56 plants rated for zone 8 winters
A zone only tells you how cold winter gets. It says nothing about summer heat, rain, soil or frost dates, so check each plant's page for the rest.