The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

8. Deer-resistant perennials

Adapted with permission from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Service.

Achillea

Aconitum

Actaea racemosa

Ajuga reptans

Alchemilla mollis

Allium

Amsonia

Angelica

Aquilegia

Artemisia

Aruncus dioicus

Asclepias tuberosa

Aster

Astilbe

Baptisia

Bergenia

Boltonia

Campanula

Ceratostigma

plumbaginoides

Chelone

Coreopsis

Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Dianthus

Dicentra eximia

Dictamnus albus

Digitalis

Echinacea purpurea

Echinops

Epimedium

Eryngium

Euphorbia

Eutrochium

Filipendula

Geranium macrorrhizum

Geum

Goniolimon tataricum

Gypsophila paniculata

Helleborus

Heuchera

Iberis sempervirens

Iris (occasionally eaten)

Kirengeshoma palmata

Lamium

Lavandula

Leucanthemum

Liatris

Lilium

lancifolium

Linaria

Linum perenne

Lupinus

Macleaya cordata

Matteuccia struthiopteris

Monarda didyma

Myosotis scorpioides

Nepeta

Oenothera

Onoclea sensibilis

Origanum

Ornamental grasses, most

Osmunda

Paeonia (occasionally

eaten)

Papaver orientale

Penstemon

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Platycodon

Polemonium caeruleum

Polystichum acrostichoides

Primula

Pulmonaria

Ranunculus

Rodgersia

Rosmarinus officinalis

Rudbeckia

Salvia officinalis

Saponaria

Coreopsis