Deer Resistant Plants
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Lobelia Starship – Scarlet Bronze Leaf Cardinal Flower
The best in its class, it dazzles with majestic spires of ruby red flowers and black stems.
Oenothera missouriensis – Evening Sun Missouri Evening Primrose
A superior selection of our beloved Missouri Evening Primrose, sun perennial.
Opuntia humifusa – Prickly Pear Cactus
Missouri and Illinois native perennial cactus.
Panicum – Blood Brothers Red Switch Grass
Dramatic grass with wine red blades, easy to grow.
Panicum Cheyenne Sky – Switch Grass
Wine red blades on tough plants.
Penstemon cobaea – Foxglove Beardtongue
Beautiful Missouri native with huge blossoms.
Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy Beardtongue
Hoards of purple and white dangling bells, U.S. native perennial.
Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian Sage
Multiple award winner with lavender-blue flowers and fantastic silver foliage.
Prunus x cistena – Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
Red and purple foliage. Deer resistant.
Ptelea trifoliata – Hop Tree
Host plant for Giant Swallowtail Butterfly.
Ratibida columnifera – Gray Head Mexican Hat
Rudbeckia – Goldquelle Cutleaf Coneflower
3" yellow pompoms appear mid-summer into fall.
Rudbeckia – Indian Summer Black-Eyed Susan
Major award-winner and staff favorite!
Rudbeckia maxima – Cabbage Leaf Coneflower
Majestic flowers and powder blue foliage.
Salvia – Color Spires Azure Snow Sage
Bicolored flowers unlike any other.
Salvia – Color Spires Crystal Blue Sage
Crystal blue flowers unlike any other.
Solidago flexicaulis Zig-zag Goldenrod
An important pollinator food source.
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Important Mo. native pollinator plant.
Thalictrum – My Little Favorite Meadow Rue
Airy foliage and flowers, shade-loving perennial.
Thalictrum rochebrunianum – Meadow Rue
Top shade perennial highly recommended.
Vernonia arkansana – Curlytop Ironweed
Featured plant of the Missouri Prairie Foundation Grow Native Pollinator Buffet program.
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