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.

Common Name
Scientific Name
Sun Reqs. Height Humboldt Native
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Big leaf maple
Acer macrophyllum
30 - 115 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Box elder
Acer negundo
35 - 66 ft
© John Doyen
Common yarrow
Achillea millefolium
1 - 3 ft
© Eugene Zelenko
California buckeye
Aesculus californica
13.1 - 39.4 ft
© John Doyen
Pearly everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea
3 - 4 ft
© John Doyen
Western columbine
Aquilegia formosa
1.5 - 3 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Elk's clover
Aralia californica
6.6 - 10 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Madrone
Arbutus menziesii
15 - 100 ft
© Copyright © 2022 Emily Sluiman
Howard mcminn manzanita
Arctostaphylos densiflora 'howard mcminn'
5 - 7 ft
© Steve Matson
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
1.6 ft
© glrbrg
California pipevine
Aristolochia californica
1 - 20 ft
© glrbrg
Sea thrift
Armeria maritima
1 ft
© John Doyen
Douglas' sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
8 ft
© John Doyen
Dune sagewort
Artemisia pycnocephala
1.6 ft
© Gregory Arena
Wild ginger
Asarum caudatum
1 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Narrow leaf milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
1.7 - 3.3 ft
© John Doyen
Showy milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
4 - 6 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Lady fern
Athyrium filix-femina
2 - 5 ft
© John Doyen
Coyote brush
Baccharis pilularis
1.5 - 10 ft
© James Gonsman
Deer fern
Blechnum spicant
2 - 3.5 ft
© Steve Matson
Pacific reedgrass
Calamagrostis nutkaensis
3.3 ft
© Mary Conway
Soap plant
Chlorogalum pomeridianum
3 ft
© Ron Vanderhoff
Cobweb thistle
Cirsium occidentale
2 - 10 ft
© Bonnie Nickel
California aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
0.7 - 3.3 ft
© Steve Matson
Tufted hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
3.3 ft
© Steve Matson
Orange bush monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
3.9 - 5 ft
© Cal Flora Nursery
Select mattole humboldt county fuschsia
Epilobium septentrionale 'select mattole'
0.5 - 1 ft
© Steve Matson
Seaside daisy
Erigeron glaucus
0.16 - 1 ft
© Patrick Furtado
Coast buckwheat
Eriogonum latifolium
1.7 - 2.3 ft
© Steve Matson
Sulphur buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
0.33 - 7 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Common woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
1 - 3.3 ft
© Stickpen
California fescue
Festuca californica
1.3 - 4 ft
© North Coast CNPS Nursery
Idahoe fescue
Festuca idahoensis
1 - 2.6 ft
© Steve Matson
Red fescue
Festuca rubra
1.3 - 2.6 ft
© Mike
Beach strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
0.49 - 1 ft
© James Gonsman
Woodland strawberry
Fragaria vesca
0.1 - 1 ft
© John Doyen
Coffeeberry
Frangula californica
6 - 15 ft
© Pete Haggard
Coast silk tassel
Garrya elliptica
6 - 16.4 ft
© Steve Matson
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
1 - 7 ft
© John Doyen
Gumweed
Grindelia stricta v. platyphylla
1 - 1.6 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Crevice alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
1 - 3.3 ft
© John Doyen
Cream bush
Holodiscus discolor
3 - 16.4 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Yellowleaf iris
Iris chrysophylla
0.1 - 0.7 ft
Douglas iris
Iris douglasiana
0.6 - 2.6 ft
© John Doyen
Western blue flag
Iris missouriensis
1 - 1.6 ft
© Jerry Murray
Toughleaf iris
Iris tenax
0.8 - 1.5 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Cliff maids
Lewisia cotyledon
0.5 - 1 ft
© John Doyen
Twinberry
Lonicera involucrata
1.6 - 16.4 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
California melicgrass
Melica californica
1 - 4.3 ft
© John Doyen
Coyote mint
Monardella villosa
2 ft
Coyote mint 'russian river'
Monardella villosa ssp. franciscana 'russian river'
1 - 1.5 ft
© Liz Block
Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens
4 - 5 ft
Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
3.3 - 8.2 ft
© Steve Matson
Shore pine
Pinus contorta ssp contorta
112 ft
© John Doyen
Leather fern
Polypodium scouleri
0.5 ft
© Jessi
Sword fern
Polystichum munitum
1.6 - 5.9 ft
© John Doyen
Slender cinquefoil
Potentilla gracilis
2.4 - 3.3 ft
© Calscape
Golden currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
3 - 6 ft
© John Doyen
White sage
Salvia apiana
3 - 5 ft
© Calscape
Cleveland sage
Salvia clevelandii
3 - 4.5 ft
© John Doyen
Black sage
Salvia mellifera
3 - 6 ft
© © 2010 Louis-M. Landry
Black elderberry
Sambucus nigra
13.1 - 30 ft
© John Doyen
California bee plant
Scrophularia californica
2 - 4 ft
© John Doyen
Broad-leaved stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium
0.1 - 0.75 ft
© NPS Photo
Coast redwood
Sequoia sempervirens
60 - 380 ft
Checker bloom
Sidalcea malviflora
0.3 - 1.5 ft
© John Doyen
Blue eyed grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
1 - 2 ft
© John Doyen
Yellow eyed grass
Sisyrinchium californicum
0.7 - 1 ft
© Steve Matson
Purple needle grass
Stipa pulchra
3.3 ft
© John Doyen
California aster
Symphyotrichum chilense
1.3 - 3.3 ft
© Steve Matson
Fringe cups
Tellima grandiflora
1.3 - 3 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Bear grass
Xerophyllum tenax
2 - 3 ft