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 |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada 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 Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
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 Normal Shield Fern | |
Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
Vallisneria americana | American Eelgrass Water Celery Eelgrass Tapegrass | |
Vachellia rigidula | Blackbrush Acacia Blackbrush Chaparro Prieto Gavia | |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
Wisteria frutescens | American Wisteria Texas Wisteria Kentucky Wisteria | |
Xanthocephalum gymnospermoides | Gummy Broomweed San Pedro Matchweed Gummy Snakeweed | |
Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
Yucca ×schottii | Schott's Yucca Arizona-soapwort | |
Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita Palma De Datil Palmito | |
Zinnia acerosa | Desert Zinnia Dwarf Zinnia Dwarf White Zinnia Shrubby Zinnia Southern Zinnia | |
Zinnia grandiflora | Plains Zinnia Rocky Mountain Zinnia Prairie Zinnia Little Golden Zinnia Yellow Zinnia | |
Zigadenus nuttallii | Nuttall's Death Camas Death Camas Poison-onion | |
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