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Deer Resistant Species
Few plants are completely deer resistant. Several factors influence deer browsing including the density of the deer population, environmental conditions such as drought, and plant palatability. Deer tend to avoid plants with aromatic foliage, tough leathery and/or hairy or prickly leaves or plants with milky latex or sap. Try using some of the plants listed here to minimize deer damage to your landscape.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Styphnolobium affine | Eve’s necklace Eve's necklacepod Texas sophora | |
| Stachys coccinea | Scarlet betony Scarlet hedge-nettle Texas betony | |
| Stemodia lanata | Woolly Stemodia Gray-woolly twintip | |
| Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian currant Buckbrush | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald cypress Baldcypress Common bald cypress Southern bald cypress Deciduous cypress | |
| Teucrium canadense | Canada germander American germander Canadian germander Germander Hairy germander Wood sage | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy four-nerve daisy Yellow daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy four-nerve daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow trumpetbush Yellow trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow elder | |
| Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud daisy | |
| Thalia dealbata | Powdery alligator-flag Powdery thalia Water canna | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff greenthread Showy Navajo tea Greenthread | |
| Thelypteris kunthii | Wood fern River fern Southern shield fern Kunth's maiden fern | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Dogweed Dyssodia Fiveneedle pricklyleaf | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thamnosma texana | Dutchman’s breeches Ruda del monte Rue of the mountains Texas desert-rue | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern poison ivy Poison ivy Poison oak | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern gamagrass | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus' looking-glass | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf cattail Common cat-tail Broad-leaf cat-tail | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican buckeye | |
| Vallisneria americana | American eelgrass Water celery Eelgrass Tapegrass | |
| Vernonia baldwinii | Baldwin's ironweed Western Ironweed Ironweed | |
| Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden crownbeard Butter daisy | |
| Verbena halei | Slender verbena Texas verbena Texas vervain | |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly ironweed | |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia crownbeard Indian tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
| Viguiera dentata | Sunflower goldeneye Plateau goldeneye Toothleaf goldeneye Goldeneye Chimalacate | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty blackhaw viburnum Rusty blackhaw Southern blackhaw Downy viburnum | |
| Viola sororia | Missouri violet Common blue violet Hooded blue violet Florida violet Meadow violet | |
| Viguiera stenoloba | Resinbush Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye | |
| Wedelia texana | Zexmenia Orange zexmenia Wedelia Hairy wedelia Texas creeping-oxeye | |
| Wisteria frutescens | American wisteria Texas wisteria Kentucky wisteria | |
| Xanthocephalum gymnospermoides | Gummy broomweed Gummy snakeweed San Pedro matchweed | |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley yucca Buckley's yucca | |
| Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf yucca Twisted-leaf yucca Texas yucca | |
| Yucca schottii | Schott's yucca Hoary Yucca Mountain Yucca | |
| Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita | |
| Zinnia acerosa | Desert zinnia Dwarf zinnia Dwarf white zinnia | |
| Zinnia grandiflora | Rocky Mountain zinnia Little golden zinnia Yellow zinnia Plains zinnia Prairie zinnia | |
| Zigadenus nuttallii | Death Camas Nuttall's deathcamas Nuttall’s death camas Poison onion | |
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