Plants deer seldom damage badly

The largest band in the database, and the most useful once you have the basics planted. Deer will nibble these, but rarely destroy them. A shrub in this tier might lose its lowest branches to a browse line and carry on for another twenty years. Judge them by whether you can live with cosmetic damage, not by whether deer touch them at all.

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Plains Blackfoot
Melampodium leucanthum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–11
Height
12–24 in
Plume Poppy
Macleaya cordata
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8
Primrose
Primula sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8, genus range
Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8
Height
36–48 in
Purple Sage
Salvia dorrii
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Height
36–36 in
Red-Hot Poker
Kniphofia uvaria
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 5–9
Rhubarb
Rheum rhabarbarum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8
Rocky Mountain Penstemon
Penstemon strictus
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
36–36 in
Rue Anemone
Anemonella thalictroides
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
4–8 in
Savory
Satureja montana
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 5–10
Height
6–18 in
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
6–24 in
Showy Goldeneye
Heliomeris multiflora
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Height
48–48 in
Sidebells Penstemon
Penstemon secundiflorus
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Height
6–18 in
Skunk Cabbage
Symplocarpus foetidus
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–7
Height
24–36 in
Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8
Height
36–60 in
Snow-in-Summer
Cerastium tomentosum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–7
Height
6–12 in
Soapweed Yucca
Yucca glauca
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
36–54 in
Soapwort
Saponaria sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9, genus range
Speedwell
Veronica sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8, genus range
Spiderwort
Tradescantia sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–9, genus range
Sticky Purple Geranium
Geranium viscosissimum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
36–36 in
Stokes Aster
Stokesia laevis
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 5–9
Height
12–24 in
Sulphur-Flower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Height
72–72 in
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
36–60 in
Threadleaf Giant Hyssop
Agastache rupestris
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 5–8
Height
36–36 in
Tiger Beardtongue
Penstemon mensarum
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
36–36 in
Toad Lily
Tricyrtis hirta
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Trillium
Trillium sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–8, genus range
Trout Lily
Erythronium sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8, genus range
Upright Prairie Coneflower
Ratibida columnifera
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 4–9
Height
36–36 in
Verbena
Verbena bonariensis
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 7–11
Height
24–60 in
Violets
Viola sp.
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9, genus range
Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
18–24 in
White Boltonia
Boltonia asteroides
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–10
Height
36–60 in
White Snakeroot
Ageratina altissima
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
24–60 in
Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
60–60 in
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–9
Height
12–36 in
Yellow Foxglove
Digitalis grandiflora
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 3–8
Yellow Wax-Bells
Kirengeshoma palmata
Seldom damaged
Type
Perennial
Hardiness
Zones 5–8

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