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Deer Tolerant/Resistant Native Plants There are no truly deer resistant or tolerant plants; any plant when eaten repeatedly will eventually succumb. Deer will eat ANYTHING if they are hungry enough. Also, plants left untouched in one area may be a favorite in another. Nevertheless, the following list is a compilation of native plant species taken from a combination of staff observation over a period of years and several existing lists of “deerproof plants”. Check the companion list for plants that deer generally prefer. Herbaceous plants : Aconitum uncinatum (monkshood) Phlox stolonifera (creeping phlox) Actaea spp. (doll’s eyes) Physostegia virginiana (obedient plant) Agastache scrophulariifolia (giant purple hyssop) *Podophyllum peltatum (may-apple) Agrimonia parviflora (small agrimony) Polemonium reptans (Jacob’s-ladder) Allium cernuum/A. tricoccum (wild onion/leek) Rudbeckia fulgida/R. hirta (black-eyed Susan) Amsonia hubrectii+/tabernaemontana (blue star) Scutellaria incana (skullcap) Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem) Solidago spp. (goldenrods) Aquilegia canadensis (wild columbine) Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk-cabbage) Arisaema spp. (Jack-in-the-pulpit) Verbena hastata (blue vervain) Aruncus dioicus (goat’s beard) Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s-root) *Asarum canadense (wild ginger) Trees and Shrubs Asclepias spp. (butterflyweed, milkweed) Acer spp. (maple) *Aster novae-angliae (New England aster) Amelanchier spp. (service berry) Aster oblongifolius (aromatic aster) Betula spp. (birch) Baptisia australis (blue false indigo) Calycanthus floridus (Carolina allspice) Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) Carpinus spp. (hornbeam) *Clematis virginiana (Virgin’s-bower) Clethra alnifolia (summersweet) Coreopsis lanceolata +/C. tripteris (tickseed) Dirca palustris (leatherwood) Coreopsis rosea (rose coreopsis) Fagus spp. (beech) Dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding-heart) Fraxinus spp. (ash) Euphorbia corollata (flowering spurge) Gleditsia triacanthos (honeylocust) Fern species Hamamelis spp. (witchhazel) Geranium maculatum (wood geranium) Hypericum prolificum (Shrubby St. John’s-wort) Helenium autumnale (Helen’s flower) Hypericum pyramidatum (Great St. John’s-wort) Hibiscus moscheutos (swamp rose-mallow) Leucothoe racemosa (fetterbush) Iris versicolor (blue flag iris) Lindera benzoin (spicebush) Jeffersonia diphylla (twin-leaf) Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet gum) Liatris spicata (dense blazing star) Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle) *Lobelia siphilitica (great blue lobelia) *Magnolia spp. Mimulus ringens/M. alatus (monkey flower) Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry) Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) Nyssa sylvatica (sourgum) Panicum virgatum (switch grass) Quercus spp. (oak) - acorns attract deer, however Penstemon digitalis/P. hirsutus (beardtongue) Viburnum spp. Phlox divaricata (blue wood phlox) + = Not native to Pennsylvania *=Plants periodically browsed at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Copyright 2002 All Rights Reserved. Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE REPRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. REPRODUCTION FOR OTHER PURPOSES WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM BOWMAN’S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.