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Deer-Resistant Picks - Northwest Meadowscapes

Deer-Resistant Picks

While no native plants are completely immune to occasional deer-browsing (especially during conditions such as drought), the right assemblage of plants can provide good resilience -- even in the face of heavy deer pressure (while looking good, supporting pollinators, and requiring minimal maintenance at the same time). The plants listed here, are some of our favorites for spaces with high deer traffic.
  • Sea Thrift Seeds (Armeria maritima)

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    Sea thrift is a circumpolar species found along coastlines from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Northern Europe. It is best adapted to harsh coa...

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  • Meadow Barley Seeds (Hordeum brachyantherum)

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    One of the most adaptable native grasses for meadow landscaping. This is one of the first grasses we recommend for people trying to incorporate nat...

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  • Baby Blue Eyes Seeds (Nemophila menziesii) – Large Pack

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    Plant in masses with this large-pack. Dream-like, low growing, and robin’s egg blue (with white centers), this abounding little annual adds a vibra...

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  • Yaak (Turf-Type) Yarrow Seeds (Achillea millefolium var. ‘yaak’)

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    A soft-textured, native ‘turf-type’ yarrow selection suitable almost nationwide for flowering wild lawns. Although very much a wild plant, and name...

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  • Narrowleaf Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias fascicularis)

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    Native from western Mexico to British Columbia, this is arguably a cornerstone of monarch butterfly breeding habitat across large sections of the I...

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  • Fringecup Seeds (Tellima grandiflora)

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    A shade-tolerant wildflower that is great for bumble bees. Small, highly-fragrant, cup-shaped green and red flowers arise on tall upright stems of ...

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  • Common Fiddleneck Seeds (Amsinckia menziesii)

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    Named for the obvious similarity of the flowerhead to the head of a violin, this occasionally common annual plant is one of our few native wildflow...

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  • Western Buttercup Seeds (Ranunculus occidentalis)

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    Add brightness to cloudy spring days! Western buttercup virtually glows in otherwise drizzly grey spring landscapes, adding constellations of brigh...

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  • Wild Blue Iris Seeds (Iris missouriensis)

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    A hardy, tough, showy plant for poorly drained sites. Although this is the most common native iris in western North America, it’s mostly a species ...

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  • Barestem Biscuitroot Seeds (Lomatium nudicaule)

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    A fascinating native member of the carrot family. Blooming at roughly the same time as camas, this unusual-looking plant creates a dazzling color c...

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  • Blue Wild Rye Seeds (Elymus glaucus)

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    An excellent utilitarian grass for erosion control, wildlife, and agroforestry. With seedheads that can reach 4 to 5 feet in height, blue wild rye ...

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  • Chamisso Sedge Seeds (Carex pachystachya)

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    One of the best grass-substitutes for combining with wildflower plantings. While most sedges have specific associations with wetlands or wet enviro...

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  • Plains Coreopsis Seeds (Coreopsis tinctoria)

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    Sometimes called dyer’s coreopsis, or dyer’s tickseed for its longstanding use as a wild dye plant, creating a range of deep-reddish-brown to yello...

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  • Deer Defense Seed Mix

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    We’ve gotten so many requests over the years for an easy-to-grow seed mix that defies deer, that we finally had to dig in and create one. For a fu...

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  • Lacy Phacelia Seeds (Phacelia tanacetifolia) - Large Pack

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    A fantastic garden cover crop and magnet for bees and syrphid flies. Lacy phacelia is largely a California species, but wild populations do occasio...

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  • Cow Parsnip Seeds (Heracleum maximum)

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    One of our best pollinator plants! At up to 7 feet in height with massive white umbels and large leaves over a foot in width, this is not your aver...

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  • Sneezeweed Seeds (Helenium autumnale)

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    A beautiful garden plant that loves wet soils. The common name notwithstanding, sneezeweed doesn’t cause sneezing. Rather the big bulbous flower ce...

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  • Beargrass Seeds (Xerophyllum tenax)

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    Famed for ancient ethnobotanical traditions, beargrass is not a grass at all, but rather a member of the corn-lily family. It’s also an icon of wes...

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  • Prairie Junegrass Seeds (Koeleria macrantha)

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    A tough, but lush, clumpy grass that can support butterfly caterpillars, grazing mammals, and even function as a lawn grass. Like a number of other...

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  • Spring Gold Seeds (Lomatium utriculatum)

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    Occurring from British Columbia to Baja, spring gold is one of the first meadow plants to flower every year – typically first showing off its radia...

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  • Seashore Bentgrass Seeds (Agrostis pallens)

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    Possibly THE BEST native turf grass in North America – one that can be left in long and swaying, or closely mowed like a manicured lawn. Native fro...

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  • Molate Red Fescue Seeds (Festuca rubra var. ‘molate’)

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    A Pacific coast form of creeping red fescue for lush, soft, exuberant wild lawns – and for filling gaps between other plant species. Contrasting sl...

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  • Broadleaf Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias latifolia)

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    This is not a Northwestern Native, but rather is a plant of the central and southern plains and the desert southwest (roughly Nebraska to Californi...

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  • Puget Balsamroot Seeds (Balsamorhiza deltoidea)

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    An extremely showy plant! Much like its relative arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), Puget balsamroot forms clumps of thick, rough-textu...

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