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Deer Resistant Plants

The following recomendations have been compiled from the Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast (Ruth Rogers Clausen & Gregory D. Tepper)¹.

 

Deer Resistance Ratings

7: Deer sometimes nip off flowers, but leave foliage alone.

8: Deer occasinally nip off one or two flowers, but mostly ignore the plant.

9: Deer ocassionally browse young spring foliage, but mostly ignore the plant.

10: Deer rarely browse foliage or flowers, and usually avoid plant altogether.

 

Forbs (Deer Resistance Rating) Graminoids (Deer Resistance Rating)
Chamaecrista fasciculata Partridge Pea (7-8) Carex pensylvanica Pennsylvania Sedge (9-10)
Allium cenuum Nodding Onion (9-10) Panicum virgatum Switchgrass (9-10)
Aquilegia canadensis Red Columbine (8-10) Schizachyrium scoparium Little Bluestem (9-10)
Asclepias tuberosa Butterflyweed (9-10)  
Baptisia australis Blue False Indigo (8-10) Shrubs (Deer Resistance Rating)
Conoclinium coelestinum Blue Mistflower (7-10) Ceanothus americanus New Jersey Tea (7-9)
Dryopteris marginalis Marginal Woodfern (9-10) Clethra alnifolia Sweet Pepperbush (8-10)
Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower (7-9) Cornus sericea Redosier Dogwood (7-9)
Eryngium yuccifolium Rattlesnake Master (9-10) Ilex verticillata Winterberry Holly (9-10)
Eupatorium maculatum Spotted Joe-Pye Weed (8-9) Itea virginica Virginia Sweetspire (6-8)
Helenium autumanle Sneezeweed (8-10) Lindera benzoin Spicebush (9-10)
Heliopsis helianthoides False Sunflower (9-10) Morella pensylvanica Northern Bayberry (9-10)
Iris versicolor Blue-flag Iris (9-10) Photinia pyrifolia Red Chokeberry (7-9)
Liatris spicata Dense Blazingstar (8-10) Viburnum dentatum Arrowwood (8-10)
Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal Flower (8-10)  
Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich Fern (8-10)  
Monarda didyma Scarlet Beebalm (7-9)  
Penstemon digitalis Foxglove Beardtongue (9-10)  
Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas Fern (8-10)  
Rudbeckia fulgida Orange Coneflower (9-10)  
Vernonia noveboracensis New York Ironweed (9-10)  

 

1. Rogers Clausen, Ruth & Tepper, Gregory. Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast. Portland: Timber Press, Inc., 2021.

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