Deer Resistant Plants
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Anemone sylvestris Snowdrop anemone/Wind flower Z 4-9
Spring and sporadically in fall - pure white saucers with contrasting yellow stamens
Spring and sporadically in fall – pure white saucers with contrasting yellow stamens
Size: 12-20" x 12-20" spreading
Care: Sun to part shade, moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and Caucasus, “grows naturally in many parts of Germany… ”Gardeners’ Dictionary, 1768In 1629 Parkinson extolled the Anemone: “The sight of them doth enforce an earnest longing in the mind of anyone to be a possessour of some of them…” The leaves of the plant were used in ointment made into “cold grieses” was used to “warm and comfort the parts (and) the roote… is apt to drawe downe rheume if it be taste. The name Anemone is Greek for the wind, “so called, because the flower is supposed not to open, except the wind blows.” The Gardeners’ Dictionary, 1768. In Greek mythology Anemos, the Wind, uses these flowers to herald his coming in early spring. Grown by Jefferson at Monticello.
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Anemone vitifolia ‘Robustissima’ syn. A tomentosa Z 4-8
Pearl-like buds open to single, ballerina- pink umbels in late summer and fall
Pearl-like buds open to single, ballerina- pink umbels in late summer and fall.
Size: 30"x 36" spreader
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: cultivated variety of A. vitifolia native to Nepal.The word Anemone is Sanskrit meaning he breathes. The Roman, Pliny wrote that the Anemone only opens with the wind. In Greek mythology Anemos, the Wind, uses these flowers to herald his coming in early spring, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris.
In 1629 Parkinson extolled the Anemone: “The sight of them doth enforce an earnest longing in the mind of anyone to be a possessour of some of them…” The leaves of the plant were used in ointment made into “cold grieses” was used to “warm and comfort the parts (and herald his coming in early spring. the roote… is apt to drawe downe rheume if it be tasted or herald his coming in early spring. This cultivar introduced from its native Nepal to European garden cultivation by Lady Amherst in 1829. -
Aquilegia canadensis Canada Columbine Z 3-9
In May and June yellow petticoats peek out from under eye-popping red skirts flaring at the ends as these flowers dangle from tall stems.
In May and June yellow petticoats peek out from under eye-popping red skirts flaring at the ends as these flowers dangle from tall stems.
Size: 24-36”x 12”
Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil - moist in spring & dry in summer
Native: Eastern Canada to Florida, west to New Mexico, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: Provides rich, early spring nectar for bumblebees, bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Buntings and finches eat seeds. Sole food source for Columbine duskywing caterpillar.
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Seeds are fragrant when crushed, used by Omaha, Ponca and Pawnee as perfume. Pawnee used the plant as a love charm by rubbing pulverized seeds in palm of hand and endeavoring to shake hand of desired person. Crushed seeds also used to cure fever and headaches. Cherokee made a tea for heart trouble. The Iroquois used the plant to cure poisoning and to detect people who were bewitched. Grown by Tradescant the Elder in England in 1632. He may have received it from France. Cultivated by Washington & Jefferson. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Aquilegia flabellata v. pumila syn. Aquilegia flabellata ‘Nana’, Aquilegia fauriei Dwarf Fan columbine Z 4-9
April-May lilac blooms of nodding lilac-blue to purple sepals with white petals on compact mound of blue-green foliage
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April-May lilac blooms of nodding lilac-blue to purple sepals with white petals on compact mound of blue-green foliage
Size: 6-9” x 9-12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, Deadhead for rebloom
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts butterfliesLatin word flabellatus mean fanlike referring to leaflet shape. First published as Aquilegia buergeriana var. pumila in Swiss journal Bulletin de l’Herbier Boissier 5: 1090. 1897.
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Arisaema dracontium syn. Arum dracontium Green dragon, Dragon root Z 4-9 POISON
A greenish, long-tipped spadix (the "dragon’s tongue") grows several inches beyond a narrow green spathe, a narrow, greenish, hooded, cylinder. Numerous tiny flowers crowd onto the 6-inch-long flower stem. Tiny white flowers in spring turn into a spike of red berries in fall.
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A greenish, long-tipped spadix (the “dragon’s tongue”) grows several inches beyond a narrow green spathe, a narrow, greenish, hooded, cylinder. Numerous tiny flowers crowd onto the 6-inch-long flower stem. Tiny white flowers in spring turn into a spike of red berries in fall.
Size: 1-3’ x 6-8”
Care: part-shade to shade in moist, slightly acidic soil
Native: NH to Florida, west to TX, north to MN. Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Although poison to humans, birds, wild turkeys and wood thrush as well as some mammals eat the berries.Named by 1753. Arisaema, is Greek for “blood arum” or “red arum”. Dracontium, means “of the dragon” in Latin. Named for the resemblance of the spadix to the tongue of a dragon. For the Menominee sacred bundles of the roots and gave the owner the power of supernatural dreams.
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Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip Z 4-9
May-June striped, hooded spathe (leaf-like bract shielding one side of the upright spike), red berries in fall
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May-June striped, hooded spathe (leaf-like bract shielding one side of the upright spike), red berries in fall – a favorite shade plant
Size: 6-24”x 12”
Care: Part shade - shade in moist soil
Native: Eastern No. America, Wisconsin native.Pawnee medicine men pulverized the corm to treat headaches and rheumatism. The Cherokee used it to cure headaches, the common cold, ringworm, boils and “for scald head (and) scrofulous sores.” Iroquois remedied adolescent diarrhea and listless infants with Jack-in-the-pulpit. Also “for nonconception caused by cold blood” and for “temporary sterility.” Chopped root mixed with whiskey cured colds. It induced pregnancy for female horses. Menominee pulverized the root, placed in incised lip to counteract witchery on the face. The seed predicted death or recovery for the Meskwaki who also used it as poison to kill enemies. The Potawatomi discovered that cooking the root for 3 days eliminated the poison. HoChunk spread a compound of the root on neuralgia or rheumatism. Native Americans boiled the berries and roasted the root, for food. Garden cultivation since 1664.
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Aronia arbutifolia Red chokeberry syn. Photinia pyrifolia SHRUB Z 5-9
Corymbs of white in spring, gorgeous red foliage in fall compliments the red berries that persist into winter
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Corymbs of white in spring, gorgeous red foliage in fall compliments the red berries that persist into winter
Size: 6-8' X 3-5'
Care: sun to part shade in moist to well-drained acidic soil. Prune annually in late winter to promote vigorous growth.
Native: Nova Scotia west to Ontario south to TX & FL
Wildlife Value: Berries overwinter-food for Thrush, Oriole, and Cedar waxwings.Showy shrub collected by André Michaux around 1800. Aronia comes from aria a subgenus of a related plant, Sorbus. Arbutifolia means “leaves like the Arbutus.” William Robinson, father of mixed borders, reported: “Massed, charming both in flower and fine color of leaf in autumn.”
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Artemisia frigida Prairie sagewort, Silky wormwood Z 3-10
Erect stems bear silvery-white, finely-divided foliage. Leaves smell like camphor. Inconspicuous yellow flowers bloom in summer.
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Erect stems bear silvery-white, finely-divided foliage. Leaves smell like camphor. Inconspicuous yellow flowers bloom in summer.
Size: 6-18” x 12-18”
Care: sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: all North America except the SE, CA and OR, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: source of nesting material for native bees, food for caterpillars of several butterflies & moths
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritNative Americans used this Artemisia to preserve meat, feed horses, repel insects, to remedy toothache, headache, coughing, lung ailments, heartburn, and colds. Indians in Great Basin used it in ceremonies. Chippewa made a decoction of root for convulsions. For the Lakota this was “women’s medicine” with an infusion helping regulate menstrual periods and induce contractions in pregnancy.
Meriwether Lewis collected this along the Missouri River in South Dakota on October 3, 1804.
