Zone 3 Plants for Wildlife

MFTC Zones, Not USDA Averages: Look Up Your Address →

Trees, shrubs and fruit that feed birds and wildlife and can take a zone 3 winter. Everything is listed A to Z, and the plants rated only to 3b, the warmer half of the zone (-35°F to -30°F), have a 3b tag on them.

More About Zone 3 Plants for Wildlife

Crabapples, chokecherry, serviceberry, elderberry, hazelnuts and oaks all feed wildlife. Many of them feed you too.

On this page: Adam's Elderberry, American Elderberry, American Hazelnut, American Linden, Aronia Berry, Aspen, Black Walnut, Buffaloberry, Bur Oak, Chokecherry, Cortland Hybrid Hazelnut Seedling, Cottonwood, Golden Currant, Hawthorn, Huckleberry, Hyslop Crabapple, Ian White Nanking Cherry, Ivan's Beauty Aronia x Mtn. Ash, John's Elderberry, Jules Nanking Cherry, Monongahela Crabapple Seedling, Montana Black Currant, Mountain Ash, Nanking Cherry, Native American Plum, Northern Red Oak, Peach Leaf Willow, Ponderosa Pine, Prairie Red Plum, Rocky Mountain Juniper, Rugose Rose, Sand Cherry, Sea Buckthorn, Serviceberry, Siberian Crabapple, Siberian Peashrub, South Dakota Plum, Trader Mulberry and Viking Aronia.

Questions We Get

What does zone 3 mean on your scale?

On our MFTC scale, zone 3 means the coldest night you should plan for (the 1-in-30-year low) falls between -40°F and -30°F. Zone 3a runs -40°F to -35°F and zone 3b runs -35°F to -30°F. That is colder than a USDA zone 3, which is built on the average yearly low, so run your address through our cold hardiness calculator instead of going off a USDA map.