Deer Resistant Native Plants
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Note: This is not intended to be a complete list of native species for each County. It is an abbreviated list that includes the more common or commonly available species. For a more complete list of Virginia native plants, visit the Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Plant Form |
|---|---|---|
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple | Large Trees |
| Achillea borealis | Common yarrow | Herbs |
| Aconitum uncinatum | Blue monkshood | Herbs |
| Actaea racemosa | Common black cohosh, Bugbane | Herbs |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Ageratina altissima | White snakeroot | Herbs |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Wild onion, Meadow onion | Herbs |
| Allium tricoccum | Ramps, Wild leek, Rampscallions | Herbs |
| Amelanchier arborea | Downy serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier laevis | Smooth serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amorpha fruticosa | False indigo-bush, Tall indigo-bush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Anatherum glomeratum | Bushy bluestem, Bushy beardgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Anchistea virginica | Virginia chain fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem, Turkeyfoot | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia | Wood anemone | Herbs |
| Anemone virginiana var. virginiana | Tall anemone, Thimbleweed | Herbs |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Wild columbine, Eastern red columbine | Herbs |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walking-stick | Medium Trees, Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum | Common jack-in-the-pulpit | Herbs |
| Aruncus dioicus var. dioicus | Goat's-beard | Herbs |
| Asarum canadense | Common wild ginger | Herbs |
| Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra | Swamp milkweed, Swamp butterfly weed, Marsh milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly milkweed, Common butterfly weed, Butterfly weed, Common butterfly-weed | Herbs |
| Asclepias variegata | White milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green milkweed, Green-flowered milkweed, Green comet milkweed, Wand milkweed | Herbs |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw, Common pawpaw | Medium Trees |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony spleenwort | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Asplenium rhizophyllum | Walking fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes | Maidenhair spleenwort | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Athyrium asplenioides | Southern lady fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo, False blue indigo | Herbs |
| Baptisia tinctoria | Yellow wild indigo, Horsefly weed | Herbs |
| Betula nigra | River birch, Red birch | Large Trees |
| Bignonia capreolata | Cross-vine | Vines |
| Caltha palustris var. palustris | Marsh marigold, Cowslip | Herbs |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge, Plantainleaf sedge, Plantain-leaved sedge, Seersucker sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam, Ironwood | Medium Trees, Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | Large Trees |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | Large Trees |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut hickory | Large Trees |
| Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue cohosh, Common blue cohosh | Herbs |
| Celastrus scandens | Climbing bittersweet, American bittersweet | Vines |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud | Medium Trees |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | River oats, Indian wood oats, Inland sea oats, Wild oats, Wood-oat, Northern sea oats | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green and gold, Golden knees | Herbs |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland golden-aster, Maryland golden aster | Herbs |
| Cirsium discolor | Field thistle | Herbs |
| Claytonia virginica var. virginica | Spring beauty, Virginia spring beauty, Eastern spring beauty | Herbs |
| Claytosmunda claytoniana | Interrupted fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Clematis virginiana | Virgin's bower, Virgin's-bower | Vines |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal white-alder, Sweet pepperbush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Clitoria mariana | Maryland butterfly pea | Herbs |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Mistflower, Ageratum, Blue boneset, Blue mistflower, Wild ageratum | Herbs |
| Coreopsis auriculata | Lobed coreopsis, Eared coreopsis , Mouse-eared coreopsis , Lobed tickseed , Ear-leaved tickseed | Herbs |
| Coreopsis major | Woodland coreopsis, Greater tickseed, Greater coreopsis | Herbs |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall coreopsis, Tall tickseed | Herbs |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Whorled coreopsis, Thread-leaf coreopsis | Herbs |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood | Medium Trees |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Crataegus phaenopyrum | Washington hawthorn | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Cunila origanoides | Common dittany, Wild oregano, Stonemint | Herbs |
| Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Hay-scented fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's breeches | Herbs |
| Dicentra eximia | Wild bleeding heart | Herbs |
| Dryopteris carthusiana | Spinulose wood fern, Toothed wood fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dryopteris celsa | Log fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dryopteris cristata | Crested wood fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dryopteris goldieana | Goldie's wood fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dryopteris intermedia | Evergreen wood fern, Fancy fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal wood fern, Evergreen wood fern, Evergreen wood-fern, Evergreen woodfern, Leather wood fern, Marginal shield fern, Marginal shield-fern, Marginal woodfern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wild rye, Eastern wild rye, Eastern wild-rye, Terrell grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple lovegrass, Tumblegrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia fleabane | Herbs |
| Eubotrys racemosus | Fetterbush, Swamp dog-hobble | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Eupatorium hyssopifolium | Hyssop-leaf thoroughwort, Hyssop-leaved boneset | Herbs |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Boneset, Common boneset | Herbs |
| Eupatorium rotundifolium | Roundleaf thoroughwort, Roundleaf boneset | Herbs |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Hollow joe-pye-weed, Joe pye thoroughwort, Joe-pye weed | Herbs |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash, American ash | Large Trees |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Yellow jessamine, Carolina jessamine | Vines |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel, Witchhazel | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Helenium autumnale | Common sneezeweed, Autumnale sneezeweed | Herbs |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Narrow-leaved sunflower | Herbs |
| Helianthus divaricatus | Woodland sunflower | Herbs |
| Heuchera villosa | Hairy alumroot | Herbs |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Swamp rose-mallow, Eastern rose-mallow, Crimson-eyed rose-mallow | Herbs |
| Houstonia caerulea | Common bluets, Azur bluets, Quaker ladies | Herbs |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea, Smooth hydrangea | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Hypericum hypericoides | St. andrew's cross | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby st. john's-wort | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Ilex opaca | American holly | Medium Trees |
| Iris cristata | Dwarf crested iris | Herbs |
| Iris versicolor | Harlequin blueflag, Northern blue flag, Large blue iris | Herbs |
| Iris virginica | Virginia blue flag, Southern blue flag | Herbs |
| Itea virginica | Virginia-willow, Virginia sweetspire | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Juncus effusus | Soft rush, Common rush | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Juncus tenuis | Path rush, Slender rush, Poverty rush | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern redcedar | Large Trees, Medium Trees |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain laurel, Ivy | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Lindera benzoin | Spicebush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum | Large Trees |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip-tree, Tulip-poplar, Yellow poplar | Large Trees |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | Herbs |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | Herbs |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay magnolia | Medium Trees |
| Mertensia virginica | Virginia bluebell, Virginia cowslip | Herbs |
| Mimulus ringens | Monkeyflower, Allegheny monkeyflower | Herbs |
| Mitchella repens | Partidge-berry | Herbs |
| Monarda didyma | Scarlet beebalm, Oswego tea | Herbs |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamot | Herbs |
| Monarda punctata | Horse-mint, Horsemint, Spotted bee-balm | Herbs |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle, Southern bayberry | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry, Common mulberry | Medium Trees |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Hair-awn muhly, Long-awn hairgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Nyssa sylvatica | Black gum, Sour gum | Large Trees, Medium Trees |
| Osmunda spectabilis | Royal fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Osmundastrum cinnamomeum | Cinnamon fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Ostrya virginiana | Hop-horn-beam, Eastern hop-hornbeam, Ironwood | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood, Sorrel tree | Large Trees |
| Packera anonyma | Small's ragwort, Appalachian ragwort, Plain ragwort, Southern ragwort | Herbs |
| Panicum virgatum | Switch grass, Switchgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia-creeper | Vines |
| Passiflora incarnata | Purple passionflower, Maypop | Vines |
| Passiflora lutea | Yellow passionflower | Herbs |
| Penstemon laevigatus | Smooth beard-tongue, Eastern smooth beard-tongue, Eastern beardtongue, Hairy beardtongue, Eastern penstemon , Eastern smooth penstemon , Hairy penstemon, Smooth penstemon | Herbs |
| Persicaria virginiana | Virginia knotweed, Jumpseed | Herbs |
| Phlox divaricata | Wild blue phlox, Woodland phlox | Herbs |
| Phlox stolonifera | Creeping phlox | Herbs |
| Phlox subulata | Moss phlox, Moss-pink | Herbs |
| Physostegia virginiana | Obedient plant, False dragonhead | Herbs |
| Pinus strobus | Eastern white pine | Large Trees |
| Pinus taeda | Loblolly pine | Large Trees |
| Pinus virginiana | Virginia pine, Scrub pine | Large Trees |
| Platanus occidentalis | Sycamore, American sycamore | Large Trees |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple, Devil's apple, Duck's foot, Hog apple, Indian apple, Indian apple root, Mandrake , Raccoonberry, Umbrella leaf, Wild lemon, May-apple, May apple | Herbs |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerel weed, Pickerelweed | Herbs |
| Prunus serotina | Wild black cherry, Black cherry, Black chokecherry, Rum cherry | Large Trees |
| Pycnanthemum incanum | Hoary mountain mint | Herbs |
| Pycnanthemum muticum | Short-toothed mountain-mint, Clustered mountain-mint | Herbs |
| Quercus alba | White oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus bicolor | Swamp white oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus coccinea | Scarlet oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus falcata | Southern red oak, Spanish oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinquapin oak, Chinkapin oak, Yellow oak | Large Trees, Medium Trees |
| Quercus palustris | Pin oak | Medium Trees |
| Quercus phellos | Willow oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus rubra | Northern red oak | Large Trees |
| Quercus stellata | Post oak | Medium Trees |
| Quercus velutina | Black oak | Large Trees |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant sumac, Aromatic sumac, Lemon sumac, Polecat bush, Polecat sumac | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Rudbeckia fulgida | Orange coneflower, Black-eyed susan, Early coneflower, Eastern coneflower, Black eyed susan | Herbs |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Gloriosa daisy, Black eyed susan, Black-eyed susan | Herbs |
| Rudbeckia laciniata | Cut-leaved coneflower, Tall coneflower, Green-headed coneflower, Wild goldenglow, Cutleaf coneflower | Herbs |
| Salix nigra | Black willow | Medium Trees |
| Salvia lyrata | Lyre-leaf sage | Herbs |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's-tail, Water-dragon | Herbs |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem, Prairie beardgrass, Prairie beard ggass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Sedum ternatum | Wild stonecrop, Woodland stonecrop | Herbs |
| Solidago bicolor | Silverrod, White goldenrod | Herbs |
| Solidago caesia | Bluestem goldenrod, Blue-stemmed goldenrod, Wreath goldenrod, Axillary goldenrod | Herbs |
| Solidago juncea | Early goldenrod | Herbs |
| Solidago odora | Sweet goldenrod, Anise-scented goldenrod | Herbs |
| Solidago rugosa | Rough-stemmed goldenrod, Wrinkle-leaf goldenrod | Herbs |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indian grass, Yellow indian grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Spiraea alba var. alba | Narrowleaf meadowsweet | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Symphyotrichum cordifolium | Heart-leaved aster, Blue wood aster | Herbs |
| Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth blue aster, Smooth aster | Herbs |
| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New england aster | Herbs |
| Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster | Herbs |
| Teucrium canadense | Canada germander, American germander | Herbs |
| Tiarella cordifolia | Heart-leaved foamflower | Herbs |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop, Tall redtop, Grease grass, Redtop | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Verbesina alternifolia | Wingstem | Herbs |
| Vernonia noveboracensis | New york ironweed | Herbs |
| Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver's-root | Herbs |
| Viola blanda | Sweet white violet | Herbs |
| Viola canadensis | Tall white violet, Canada violet | Herbs |
| Viola pedata | Bird's foot violet, Birdfoot violet, Bird-foot violet | Herbs |
| Viola pubescens | Downy yellow violet | Herbs |
| Viola sororia | Common blue violet, Confederate violet | Herbs |
| Vitis aestivalis | Silverleaf grape | Vines |
| Yucca filamentosa | Common yucca, Adam's needle | Herbs |