All Plants > Deer Resistant (72)
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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Coyote brush
Baccharis pilularis |
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1.5 - 10 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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California aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia |
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0.7 - 3.3 ft | ✓ |
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Tufted hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa |
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3.3 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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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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Sulphur buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum |
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0.33 - 7 ft | ✓ |
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Common woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum |
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1 - 3.3 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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Coast silk tassel
Garrya elliptica |
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6 - 16.4 ft | ✓ |
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Salal
Gaultheria shallon |
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1 - 7 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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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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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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California melicgrass
Melica californica |
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1 - 4.3 ft | ✓ |
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Coyote mint
Monardella villosa |
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2 ft | ✓ |
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Coyote mint 'russian river'
Monardella villosa ssp. franciscana 'russian river' |
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1 - 1.5 ft | |
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Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens |
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4 - 5 ft | |
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Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus |
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3.3 - 8.2 ft | ✓ |
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Shore pine
Pinus contorta ssp contorta |
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112 ft | ✓ |
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Leather fern
Polypodium scouleri |
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0.5 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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Golden currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum |
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3 - 6 ft | |
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White sage
Salvia apiana |
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3 - 5 ft | |
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Cleveland sage
Salvia clevelandii |
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3 - 4.5 ft | |
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Black sage
Salvia mellifera |
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3 - 6 ft | ✓ |
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Black elderberry
Sambucus nigra |
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13.1 - 30 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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Coast redwood
Sequoia sempervirens |
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60 - 380 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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Fringe cups
Tellima grandiflora |
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1.3 - 3 ft | ✓ |
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Bear grass
Xerophyllum tenax |
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2 - 3 ft | ✓ |