Plants on this list are not preferred by deer. It does not mean that deer always avoid them. If other food sources are available these plants will probably be overlooked.
+: Plants w/ toxic substances
^: Aromatic Foliage
*: Produces milky substance
- Ajuga
- Allium ^
- Anemone
- Anise Hyssop (Agastache) ^
- Artemesia, Silver Mound
- Astilbe
- Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila)
- Balloon Flower (Platycodon) *
- Barrenwort (Epimedium)
- Bell Flower (Campanula) *
- Bergenia
- Black Eye Susan (Rudbeckia)
- Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)
- Blue Mist Shrub (Caryopteris)
- Blue Star (Amsonia)
- Brunnera
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias) *
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia)
- Catchfly (Lychnis)
- Catmint (Nepeta) ^
- Centurea (Perennial Bachelor’s Button)
- Clematis
- Coral Bell (Heuchera)
- Coreopsis
- Dame’s Rocket (Hesperis)
- Delphinium
- Dianthus
- Echinacea (Coneflower)
- Euphorbia (Cushion Spurge)
- False Indigo (Baptisia)
- Ferns
- FoamFlower (Tiarella)
- Forget Me Not (Myosotis)
- Foxglove (Digitalis) +
- Geranium
- Geum (Avens)
- Globe Thistle (Echinops)
- Goat’s Beard (Aruncus)
- Goldenray (Ligularia)
- Grasses, ornamental
- Helen’s Flower (Helenium)
- Helleborus +
- Hen-n-Chicks (Sempervirens)
- Hibiscus
- Ice Plant (Delosperma)
- Iris
- Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium)
- Jupiter’s Beard (Centranthus)
- Knautia
- Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla)
- Lamb’s Ear (Stachys)
- Lamium
- Lavender
- Lily of the Valley (Convallaria)
- Lilyturf (Liriope)
- Lungwort (Pulmonaria)
- MeadowSweet (Filipendula)
- MeadowRue (Thalictrum)
- Monarda (Bee Balm) ^
- Monkshood (Acontium) +
- Oenothera (Sundrops/Evening Primrose)
- Peony
- Poppy
- Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia)
- Rhubarb +
- Salvia, perennial
- Sedum
- Soapwort (Saponaria)
- Snakeroot (Cimicifuga/Actaea)
- Sweet Woodruff (Galium)
- Snow in Summer (Cerastium)
- Stoke’s Aster (Stokesia)
- Thyme ^
- Turtlehead (Chelone)
- Verbascum (Mullein)
- Veronica
- Yarrow (Achillea) ^
- Yucca
