Special Collections
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
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| Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
| Evax prolifera | Bighead Pygmycudweed Rabbit Tobacco | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Galphimia angustifolia | Narrowleaf Goldshower Thryallis Narrow-leaf Goldshower | |
| Garrya ovata ssp. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Silktassel Lindheimer Silktassel Lindheimer's Garrya Lindheimer Garrya Mexican Silktassel Mexican Garrya Eggleaf Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
| Hydrolea ovata | Blue Waterleaf Ovate False Fiddleleaf Hairy Hydrolea | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
| Hydrocotyle verticillata var. verticillata | Whorled Marshpennywort Water-pennywort Pennywort Money-plant | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
| Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. cordatotriloba | Tievine Sharp-pod Morning Glory Purple Bindweed Tie Vine | |
| Iris brevicaulis | Zigzag Iris | |
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