cold hardiness
Withstanding freezing temperatures
Cold hardiness is a plant's ability to survive freezing temperatures.
Gardeners and horticulturists use hardiness ratings to determine which plants will thrive in their climate: Check the cold hardiness zone before planting.
A cold-hardy variety can withstand winter conditions that would kill more tender plants.
- acclimationAdjusting to new conditions
- hardening offGradual outdoor exposure process
- dormancySuspended biological activity
- microclimatesLocalized atmospheric conditions
- snow coverAccumulated frozen precipitation
cryoprotection · polar regions · overwintering · killing frost · late frost · winter kill · alpine · climate adaptation · seasonal variation · supercooling · arctic · wind chill · thermal insulation · perennial · evergreen · freeze · mulch · snowpack
- horticulturehorticulture, gardening, cultivation, planting, seeds
- plant sciencebotany, plant breeding, plant anatomy, plant biology, plant science
- adaptation processesacclimatization, habituation, conditioning, adjustment period, climate adaptation
- Crop Improvementbreeding, hybridization, gene editing, CRISPR, selective breeding
- plant traitsthorny, spiny, evergreen, deciduous, flowering
- winter ecologyhibernation, migration, snowpack, permafrost, dormancy