Deer Resistant Plants
Plants Rarely Damaged
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Common Name Botanical Name
River Birch Betula Common Boxwood Buxus sempervirens Drooping Leucothoe Leucothoe font Colorado Spruce Picea pungens Japanese Andromeda Pieris japonica Western Arborvitae Thuja plicata (Green Giant) |
Note that no plant is completely "deer proof".
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Plants Seldom Severely Damaged
River Birch European River Birch Betula pendula American Bittersweet Red Osier Dogwood Flowering & Kousa Dodwood English Hawthorne Redvei Enkianthus European Beech Forsythia Honeylocust Inkberry |
Plants Seldom Severely Damaged
*Juniper Mountain Laurel Norway Spruce White Spruce Mugo Pine Scotch Pine Japanese Flowering Cherry Corkscrew Willow Japanese Umbrella Pine Common Lilac |
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Plants Occasionally Severely Damaged
White Fir Paperbark Maple Red Maple Silver Maple Sugar Maple Common Horsechestnut Downy Serviceberry Alleghany Serviceberry Smokebush Border Forsythia Common Witchhazel Rose of Sharon Smooth Hydrangea Pamicle Hydrangea Japanese Holly China Girl/China Boy Holly Eastern Red Cedar** European Larch Privet Saucer Magnolia Dawn Redwood Sweet Mock Orange Eastern White Pine Sweet Cherry |
Plants Occasionally Severely Damaged
Douglas Fir Bradford Callery Pear Common Pear White Oak Northern Red Oak Deciduous Azaleas Carolina Rhododendron Rosebay Rhododendron Rugosa Rose Willows Anthony Waterer Spirea Bridalwreath Spirea Persian Lilac Japanese Tree Lilac Late Lilac Greenspire Linden Eastern Hemlock Judd Viburnum Leatherleaf Viburnum Doublefile Viburnum Koreanspice Viburnum Old Fashioned Weigela |
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Plants FREQUENTLY Severely Damaged
Weigela Balsam Fir Fraser Fir Norway Maple Eastern Redbud Atlantic White Cedar Clematis Cornelian Dogwood English Ivy |
Plants FREQUENTLY Severely Damaged
Apples Cherries Plums Rhododendrons Evergreen Azaleas Hybrid Tea Roses European Mountain Ash Yews *American Arborvitae |
M.J. Fargione, P..D. Curtis, and M.E. Richmond. 1991. Resistance of woody ornamental plants to deer damage. Cornell Coop. Ext. Fact Sheet. Ithaca, NY. 4pp.
