Deer Resistant Annuals & Perennials

Deer Resistant
Perennials for Sun

• Achillea (Yarrow)
• Agastache (Anise Hyssop)
• Ajuga (Bugleweed)
• Allium (Ornamental Onion)
• Amsonia (Blue Star)
• Arabis (Rock-Cress)
• Baptisia (False Indigo)
• Coreopsis (Tickseed)
• Dianthus (Carnations)
• Echinacea (Coneflower)
• Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
• Euphorbia (Spurge)
• Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
• Iberis (Candytuft)
• Iris
• Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker)
• Lavandula (Lavender)
• Lychnis (Rose Campion)
• Monarda (Bee Balm)
• Nepeta (Catmint)
• Paeonia (Peony)
• Perovskia (Russian Sage)
• Salvia (Sage)
• Solidago (Goldenrod)
• Stachys (Lamb’s Ear)
• Yucca

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Most grasses and ferns
are highly resistant to
deer grazing.

In general, deer tend
to avoid plants with
strong fragrances,
sharp thorns and hairy
leaves.

 

 

Deer Resistant
Perennials for Shade

• Aconitum (Monkshood)
• Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantle)
• Anemone (Japanese Anemone)
• Aquilegia (Columbine)
• Asarum (Ginger)
• Astilbe
• Bergenia
• Cimicifuga (Actea) (Snakeroot)
• Dicentra (Bleeding Heart)
• Galium (Sweet Woodruff)
• Helleborus (Lenten Rose)
• Ligularia
• Lobelia (Cardinal Flower)
• Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
• Tiarella (Foamflower)

Deer Resistant
Annuals

• Ageratum
• Alyssum
• Cleome
• Dusty Miller
• Lantana
• Lobelia
• Marigolds
• Myosotis (Forget-me-nots)
• Nasturtium
• Nicotiana
• Salvia
• Snapdragon
• Verbena
• Vinca (Flowering Vinca)
• Zinnia