All Plants > Deer Resistant (71)
There are few gardening heartaches quite like waking up to find that hungry deer have visited your garden! These are some plants that Calscape has tagged as being deer resistant. We have to add that an extremely hungry deer and young deer will try anything. However, this is a great list to browse if you've had a history with deer problems.
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Common Name Scientific Name |
Sun Reqs. | Height | Humboldt Native | |
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Big leaf maple
Acer macrophyllum |
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30 - 115 ft | ✓ |
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Box elder
Acer negundo |
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35 - 66 ft | ✓ |
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Common yarrow
Achillea millefolium |
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1 - 3 ft | ✓ |
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California buckeye
Aesculus californica |
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13.1 - 39.4 ft | ✓ |
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Pearly everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea |
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3 - 4 ft | ✓ |
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Western columbine
Aquilegia formosa |
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1.5 - 3 ft | ✓ |
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Elk's clover
Aralia californica |
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6.6 - 10 ft | ✓ |
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Madrone
Arbutus menziesii |
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15 - 100 ft | ✓ |
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Howard mcminn manzanita
Arctostaphylos densiflora 'howard mcminn' |
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5 - 7 ft | |
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Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi |
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1.6 ft | ✓ |
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California pipevine
Aristolochia californica |
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1 - 20 ft | ✓ |
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Sea thrift
Armeria maritima |
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1 ft | ✓ |
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Douglas' sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana |
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8 ft | ✓ |
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Dune sagewort
Artemisia pycnocephala |
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1.6 ft | ✓ |
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Wild ginger
Asarum caudatum |
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1 ft | ✓ |
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Narrow leaf milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis |
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1.7 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Showy milkweed
Asclepias speciosa |
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4 - 6 ft | ✓ |
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Lady fern
Athyrium filix-femina |
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2 - 5 ft | ✓ |
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Dwarf coyote brush
Baccharis pilularis 'pigeon point' |
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1 - 2 ft | |
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Deer fern
Blechnum spicant |
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2 - 3.5 ft | ✓ |
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Pacific reedgrass
Calamagrostis nutkaensis |
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3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Soap plant
Chlorogalum pomeridianum |
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3 ft | |
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Cobweb thistle
Cirsium occidentale |
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2 - 10 ft | ✓ |
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Ruby chalice clarkia
Clarkia rubicunda |
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2 ft | |
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California aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia |
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0.7 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Western houndstongue
Adelinia grandis |
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1 - 3 ft | ✓ |
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Tufted hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa |
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3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Bleeding heart
Dicentra formosa |
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0.7 - 1.6 ft | ✓ |
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Orange bush monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus |
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3.9 - 5 ft | ✓ |
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Select mattole humboldt county fuschsia
Epilobium septentrionale 'select mattole' |
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0.5 - 1 ft | |
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Stream orchid
Epipactis gigantea |
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1 - 2.3 ft | ✓ |
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Seaside daisy
Erigeron glaucus |
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0.16 - 1 ft | ✓ |
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Coast buckwheat
Eriogonum latifolium |
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1.7 - 2.3 ft | ✓ |
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Common woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum |
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1 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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California poppy
Eschscholzia californica |
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0.16 - 2 ft | ✓ |
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Coastal california poppy
Eschscholzia californica v. maritima |
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1.5 ft | ✓ |
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California fescue
Festuca californica |
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1.3 - 4 ft | ✓ |
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Idahoe fescue
Festuca idahoensis |
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1 - 2.6 ft | ✓ |
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Red fescue
Festuca rubra |
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1.3 - 2.6 ft | ✓ |
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Beach strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis |
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0.49 - 1 ft | ✓ |
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Woodland strawberry
Fragaria vesca |
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0.1 - 1 ft | ✓ |
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Coffeeberry
Frangula californica |
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6 - 15 ft | |
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Oregon gumweed
Grindelia stricta |
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3.3 - 5 ft | ✓ |
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Gumweed
Grindelia stricta v. platyphylla |
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1 - 1.6 ft | ✓ |
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Crevice alumroot
Heuchera micrantha |
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1 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Cream bush
Holodiscus discolor |
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3 - 16.4 ft | ✓ |
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Seaside bird's foot trefoil
Hosackia gracilis |
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0.33 - 1.6 ft | ✓ |
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Yellowleaf iris
Iris chrysophylla |
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0.1 - 0.7 ft | |
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Douglas iris
Iris douglasiana |
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0.6 - 2.6 ft | ✓ |
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Central coast iris
Iris longipetala |
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2 ft | ✓ |
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Ground iris
Iris macrosiphon |
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1 - 2 ft | ✓ |
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Western blue flag
Iris missouriensis |
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1 - 1.6 ft | |
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Toughleaf iris
Iris tenax |
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0.8 - 1.5 ft | ✓ |
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Cliff maids
Lewisia cotyledon |
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0.5 - 1 ft | ✓ |
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Twinberry
Lonicera involucrata |
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1.6 - 16.4 ft | ✓ |
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Silver lupine
Lupinus albifrons |
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3.2 - 5 ft | ✓ |
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Coyote mint
Monardella villosa |
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2 ft | ✓ |
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Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus |
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3.3 - 8.2 ft | ✓ |
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Lodgepole pine
Pinus contorta |
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30 - 112 ft | ✓ |
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Sword fern
Polystichum munitum |
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1.6 - 5.9 ft | ✓ |
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Slender cinquefoil
Potentilla gracilis |
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2.4 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Black oak
Quercus kelloggii |
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20 - 120 ft | ✓ |
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Golden currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum |
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3 - 6 ft | |
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California bee plant
Scrophularia californica |
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2 - 4 ft | ✓ |
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Broad-leaved stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium |
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0.1 - 0.75 ft | ✓ |
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Checker bloom
Sidalcea malviflora |
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0.3 - 1.5 ft | ✓ |
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Blue eyed grass
Sisyrinchium bellum |
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1 - 2 ft | ✓ |
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Yellow eyed grass
Sisyrinchium californicum |
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0.7 - 1 ft | ✓ |
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Purple needle grass
Stipa pulchra |
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3.3 ft | ✓ |
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California aster
Symphyotrichum chilense |
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1.3 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Meadow rue
Thalictrum fendleri |
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3 - 6 ft | ✓ |