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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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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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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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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California hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa ssp. holciformis |
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1 - 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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California fuchsia 'orange carpet'
Epilobium canum 'orange carpet' |
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0.25 - 0.5 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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Siskiyou oregon sunshine
Eriophyllum lanatum 'siskiyou' |
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0.5 - 1 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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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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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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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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Coyote mint 'russian river'
Monardella villosa ssp. franciscana 'russian river' |
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1 - 1.5 ft | |
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Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus |
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3.3 - 8.2 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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Black sage
Salvia mellifera |
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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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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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Meadow rue
Thalictrum fendleri |
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3 - 6 ft | ✓ |