Deer Resistant Plants

Deer and rabbits will eat anything if they are hungry enough. Plants they usually avoid have fuzzy or aromatic leaves, and a bristly or tough texture. Listed here are their least favorite to munch on and will discourage deer from grazing your garden!

Evergreens

  • Cedar
  • Fir
  • Hemlock
  • Juniper
  • Pine, Austrian & Scotch
  • Spruce

Deciduous Trees

  • Elm
  • Hawthorn
  • Honeylocust
  • Magnolia
  • Maple
  • Oak

Deciduous Shrubs

  • Barberry
  • Boxwood
  • Cotoneaster
  • Diervilla
  • Forsythia
  • Honeysuckle
  • Lilac
  • Potentilla
  • Rhododendron
  • Smokebush
  • Snowberry
  • Spirea
  • Sumac

Groundcovers

  • Aegopodium
  • Ajuga
  • Lamium
  • Pachysandra
  • Vinca (Periwinkle)

Perennials

  • Achillea (Yarrow)
  • Aquilegia (Columbine)
  • Artemisia (Silver Mound)
  • Aruncus (Goat’s Beard)
  • Asclepias
  • Atilbe
  • Baptisia (False Indigo)
  • Bergenia
  • Chelone (Turtlehead)
  • Coreopsis
  • Dianthus
  • Dicentra
  • Digitalis (Foxglove)
  • Echinacea (Coneflower)
  • Eupatorium
  • Fern, Cinnamon
  • Liatris (Gayfeather)
  • Monarda (Bee Balm)
  • Nepeta (Catmint)
  • Platycodon
  • Polemonium
  • Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
  • Salvia (Sage)
  • Stachys (Lamb’s Ear)
  • Veronica (Speedwell)