# Zone 6B Shrubs That Prefer Shade
The minimum wintertime temperatures in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness Zone 6B hover around 5 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The zone starts in the east in southern New England, heading through mid-Atlantic states such as Pennsylvania and into the Midwest and Great Plains. Western areas of Zone 6 include parts of Nevada, Oregon, Washington and the British Columbia and southern Alaska Coasts. Certain shrubs survive in Zone 6, growing in sites that receive some degree of shade; many work well as landscaping species.
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Leatherwood
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Full doses of sunshine burn or bleach the leaves of leatherwood (Dirca palustris), making their fall colors less vibrant, warns the Missouri Botanical Garden. Leatherwood grows to between 4 and 6 feet tall in eastern sections of North America, including Zone 6B, with the shrub requiring shade to thrive. Leatherwood's leaves are a yellow-green color that by fall turns vivid yellow. Leatherwood flowers in March and April before its leaves open up, turning out yellow blossoms that make this species usable as an ornamental near ponds, woodland borders or in other shady sites.
Disanthus
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While disanthus (Disanthus cercidifolius) tolerates full shade and grows in light shade, it cannot withstand exposure to drought conditions. This native of Japan and China grows from 6 to 10 feet tall, with thin branches and blue-green leaves. Disanthus can handle the climate of Zone 6b, surviving as far north as Zone 5. Disanthus will turn orange and red in autumn. Landscapers use it around foundations, in shrub borders and alone as a specimen plants on lawns.
Common Snowberry
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Shaded gardens are ideal sites for common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), a species easily transplanted to new sites and able to grow in many kinds of soils. Common snowberry grows from Canada to Virginia, with Zone 6b on the southern fringe of its natural range. Common snowberry grows to 6 feet, with many stems and blue-green leaves. The fruit is white and highly ornamental, developing during the fall and giving the shrub its name.
Black Jetbead
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Hardy in Zone 6b, black jetbead is a deciduous shrub from Japan with many arching branches. Black jetbead grows between 3 and 6 feet tall in sun and shade, with a great tolerance for shady sites, notes the University of Connecticut Plant Database. Black jetbead's bright green foliage has serrations along its edges. The flowers bloom in May and June, with the berries they yield turning dark black by fall and remaining on the shrub into the winter. Black jetbead colonizes shady sites where little else grows, and it works as a foundation plant, a hedge or in urban areas where pollution is present.
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