What Grows in Alcorn State University, Mississippi

Alcorn State University — the short answer

What this means for growing in Alcorn State University

Each reading below is measured for Alcorn State University itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Season length

From county records

Alcorn State University runs about 278 days between hard freezes (read from Claiborne County, the closest normal to Alcorn State University) — close to year-round growing.

Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.

Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.

Growing through the winter

NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals

Winter hardiness

Measured

Alcorn State University sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.

The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.

Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.

How hardiness zones work

USDA PHZM 2023

The kind of country Alcorn State University is in

Alcorn State University sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Alcorn State University's own centroid rather than borrowed from Claiborne County.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Alcorn State University

Every plant below cleared Alcorn State University's own zone 8b and its 278-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.

Growing cabbage in MississippiZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.

Mississippi fig guideZones 6–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.

California poppy in MississippiZones 6–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.

Collard greens: Mississippi growing notesZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.

Growing loquat in MississippiZones 7–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.

Mississippi rosemary guideZones 8–10Alcorn State University's 8b is its exact cold limit.

Kale in MississippiZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.

Pomegranate: Mississippi growing notesZones 7–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.

Growing lavender in MississippiZones 5–8Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Mississippi lentil guideZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~70 it needs.

Prickly pear in MississippiZones 5–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Okra: Mississippi growing notesZones 2–12Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~50 it needs.

Growing almond in MississippiZones 5–9Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Mississippi potato guideZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.

Pumpkin in MississippiZones 3–11Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~40 it needs.

Iris: Mississippi growing notesZones 3–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.

Growing sunflower in MississippiZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~70 it needs.

Mississippi apache plume guideZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Hops in MississippiZones 3–8Alcorn State University's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.

Hosta: Mississippi growing notesZones 3–8Alcorn State University's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.

Growing french marigold in MississippiAlcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~50 it needs.

Mississippi holly guideZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Carolina jessamine in MississippiZones 7–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.

Tulip: Mississippi growing notesZones 6–8Alcorn State University's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.

Growing redbud in MississippiZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Mississippi pearl millet guideZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~60 it needs.

Ajuga in MississippiZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Douglas fir: Mississippi growing notesZones 4–10Alcorn State University's 8b — 4 zones of cold margin.

Growing phacelia in MississippiZones 2–11Alcorn State University's 278 days clear the ~100 it needs.

Mississippi liriope guideZones 5–11Alcorn State University's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Your land is one point inside Alcorn State University

Everything above resolves to Alcorn State University as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Claiborne County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.

How we know this about Alcorn State University

The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Claiborne County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.