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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.| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Bidens aristosa | Bearded Beggarticks Tickseed Sunflower | |
| Bidens bipinnata | Spanish Needles | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens cernua | Nodding Beggartick Bur Marigold Nodding Beggarticks Nodding Bur Marigold Nodding Burmarigold Nodding Burr-marigold Sticktight | |
| Bidens coronata | Crowned Beggarticks | |
| Bidens connata | Purplestem Beggarticks | |
| Bidens discoidea | Small Beggarticks | |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
| Bidens tripartita | Threelobe Beggarticks Three-part Beggarticks Leafy-bracted Beggarticks Trifid Bur-marigold | |
| Bidens vulgata | Big Devils Beggartick | |
| Blephilia ciliata | Downy Pagoda-plant Sunny Woodmint Ohio Horsemint | |
| Blephilia hirsuta | Hairy Woodmint Hairy Pagoda-plant | |
| Blephilia hirsuta var. hirsuta | Hairy Pagoda-plant Hairy Woodmint Hairy Wood-mint | |
| Boykinia aconitifolia | Allegheny Brookfoam | |
| Botrychium biternatum | Sparselobe Grapefern | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula | Sideoats Grama | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Botrychium dissectum | Cutleaf Grapefern | |
| Botrychium lanceolatum | Lanceleaf Grapefern | |
| Botrychium lanceolatum var. angustisegmentum | Lanceleaf Grapefern | |
| Botrychium matricariifolium | Matricary Grapefern | |
| Botrychium multifidum | Leathery Grapefern | |
| Botrychium oneidense | Bluntlobe Grapefern | |
| Botrychium simplex | Little Grapefern | |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
| Brachyelytrum aristosum | Northern Shorthusk | |
| Bromus ciliatus | Fringed Brome | |
| Bromus ciliatus var. ciliatus | Fringed Brome | |
| Brachyelytrum erectum | Bearded Shorthusk Longawn Woodgrass | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Bromus inermis | Smooth Brome | |
| Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
| Bromus latiglumis | Earlyleaf Brome | |
| Bromus pubescens | Hairy Woodland Brome | |
| Brasenia schreberi | Watershield | |
| Bulbostylis capillaris | Densetuft Hairsedge Hair-sedge | |
| Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris | Dense-tuft Hair Sedge Densetuft Hairsedge Threadleaf Beakseed | |
| Carex aestivalis | Summer Sedge | |
| Carex aggregata | Glomerate Sedge | |
| Carex albursina | White Bear Sedge | |
| Carex albicans | Whitetinge Sedge | |
| Carex albolutescens | Greenwhite Sedge | |
| Carex albicans var. albicans | Whitetinge Sedge | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
| Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge Creek Sedge | |
| Cardamine angustata | Slender Toothwort | |
| Carex annectens | Yellowfruit Sedge | |
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