What grows in zone 2
Zone 2 means the coldest night of an average winter falls between -50 and -40°F (-46 to -40°C). Short summers and deep cold: the plants below are the tough ones. Hardiness is only the cold half of the story: summer heat, winter chill and rain decide the rest, and the free planner checks all of them for your ZIP.
Fruit trees (3)
- Siberian apricot · zones 2–7
- Siberian crabapple · zones 2–7
- Ussurian pear · zones 2–7
Berries and small fruit (10)
- Arctic bramble · zones 1–5
- Bog bilberry · zones 1–5
- Bush cherry · zones 2–7
- Cloudberry · zones 1–4
- Cranberry · zones 2–7
- Golden currant (clove currant) · zones 2–8
- Haskap (honeyberry) · zones 2–7
- Lingonberry · zones 2–7
- Nanking cherry · zones 2–7
- Steppe cherry (Mongolian cherry) · zones 2–7
Nut trees (1)
- Siberian pine (kedr) · zones 2–6
Perennial vegetables, greens and herbs (2)
- Altai onion · zones 2–7
- Rhodiola (golden root) · zones 1–5
Annual vegetables, herbs and grains (44)
- Amaranth (grain and greens) · zones 2–11
- Arugula · zones 2–11
- Barley · zones 2–9
- Basil · zones 2–11
- Beet · zones 2–11
- Bok choy · zones 2–11
- Bread wheat · zones 2–9
- Broccoli · zones 2–11
- Bush bean · zones 2–11
- Cabbage · zones 2–11
- Calendula · zones 2–11
- Carrot · zones 2–11
- Cauliflower · zones 2–11
- Cilantro · zones 2–11
- Collard greens · zones 2–11
- Cucumber · zones 2–11
- Dill · zones 2–11
- Eggplant · zones 2–11
- German chamomile · zones 2–9
- Hot pepper · zones 2–11
- Kale · zones 2–11
- Leek · zones 2–11
- Lettuce · zones 2–11
- Mustard · zones 2–11
- Nasturtium · zones 2–11
- Oats · zones 2–10
- Okra · zones 2–11
- Onion · zones 2–11
- Parsley · zones 2–11
- Parsnip · zones 2–9
- Pea · zones 2–11
- Pole bean · zones 2–11
- Potato · zones 2–11
- Radish · zones 2–11
- Spinach · zones 2–11
- Summer savory (kondari) · zones 2–11
- Sweet pepper · zones 2–11
- Swiss chard · zones 2–11
- Tartary buckwheat (phapar) · zones 2–9
- Tomatillo · zones 2–11
- Tomato · zones 2–11
- Turnip · zones 2–11
- Winter squash and pumpkin · zones 2–11
- Zucchini (summer squash) · zones 2–11
Native and wild plants (29)
- American cranberrybush · zones 2–7
- Arctic willow · zones 1–6
- Chokecherry · zones 2–7
- Common juniper · zones 2–7
- Common sunflower · zones 2–11
- Crowberry · zones 1–6
- Dwarf fireweed (paunnat, river beauty) · zones 1–6
- Eastern red cedar · zones 2–9
- Fireweed · zones 2–7
- Hackberry · zones 2–9
- Highbush cranberry (squashberry) · zones 2–6
- Labrador tea · zones 1–5
- Leadplant · zones 2–8
- Lowbush blueberry · zones 2–6
- Mountain sorrel (qunguliq) · zones 1–6
- Nannyberry · zones 2–8
- Native honeyberry (mountain fly honeysuckle) · zones 2–6
- Ninebark · zones 2–8
- Northern white cedar (arborvitae) · zones 2–7
- Paper birch · zones 2–7
- Prickly wild rose · zones 1–6
- Quaking aspen · zones 1–7
- Riverbank grape · zones 2–8
- Rowan · zones 2–7
- Scots pine · zones 2–7
- Silver birch · zones 2–7
- Silver buffaloberry · zones 2–7
- Smooth sumac · zones 2–9
- White spruce (spruce tips) · zones 1–5
Helper plants for soil, wildlife and biomass (5)
- Buckwheat · zones 2–11
- Daikon (tillage radish) · zones 2–11
- French marigold · zones 2–11
- Siberian pea shrub · zones 2–7
- Sweet alyssum · zones 2–11
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General guidance, not professional advice. Conditions vary by yard and year; for local specifics ask your county extension office. Never eat a wild plant you cannot identify with certainty. Traditional uses are shared as history, not medical advice. © 2026 Sean Priest · Irie Orchard. Terms & credits · Privacy · Home