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Plants for Colorado

25 plants, from deer-resistant lists, drought-tolerant lists and native lists held for Colorado.

Resistant means eaten less often, not never; drought-tolerant means established, and in a normal year; native is a claim about a range, and ranges have edges.

Plants named by lists held for Colorado

  • Blazing star in bloom: upright spikes of fluffy rosy-purple flowers over grassy leaves
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    blazing star Liatris spicata

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Blue mist spirea in a foundation bed: grey-green leaves with clusters of bright blue flowers
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    blue mist spirea Caryopteris × clandonensis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed
    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones not recorded

  • A broad bur oak in an open lawn, with acorns in shaggy fringed caps on a near branch
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    bur oak Quercus macrocarpa

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Catmint spilling over a garden path: grey-green leaves under spikes of lavender-blue flowers
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    catmint Nepeta × faassenii

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 8

  • A chokecherry in spring bloom, hung with drooping spikes of small white flowers
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    chokecherry Prunus virginiana

    tree

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Native

    Zones 2 to 7

  • A hackberry in a park lawn, its grey trunk covered in corky warts and ridges
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    common hackberry Celtis occidentalis

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 2 to 9

  • common juniper Juniperus communis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed
    • Drought-tolerant Moisture L – M (low to medium)
    • Native Native

    Zones not recorded

  • A common lilac beside a house, covered in cone-shaped clusters of purple flowers
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    common lilac Syringa vulgaris

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 7

  • creeping juniper Juniperus horizontalis

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A honeylocust in a front yard in autumn, its fine pinnate leaves yellow and long brown pods hanging
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    honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 8

  • A Kentucky coffeetree after leaf drop, hung with thick dark brown seed pods
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    Kentucky coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 8

  • mountain ninebark Physocarpus monogynus

    shrub

    • Native Native

    Zones not recorded

  • A mugo pine in a rock garden: a low, dense mound of dark needles with pale new candles
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    mugo pine Pinus mugo

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones not recorded

  • Orange coneflower: a dense mound covered in small golden-orange flowers with dark brown centres
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    orange coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A pinyon pine on a dry rocky slope: a small, bushy, rounded pine
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    pinyon pine Pinus edulis

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed
    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes
    • Native Native

    Zones not recorded

  • A ponderosa pine on a dry slope, its tall trunk plated in orange-cinnamon bark
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    ponderosa pine Pinus ponderosa

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes
    • Native Native Range: Western North America
    • Native Native

    Zones 3 to 7

  • Purple coneflower in bloom: pink-purple drooping petals around spiky orange-brown cones
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    purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Red twig dogwood in winter: bright red bare stems over a dusting of snow
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    red twig dogwood Cornus sericea

    shrub

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Native
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native shrubs that we recommend for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)

    Zones 3 to 7

  • Rocky Mountain juniper Juniperus scopulorum

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes
    • Native Native

    Zones not recorded

  • Russian sage in a gravel bed: silvery stems under a haze of lavender-blue flowers
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    Russian sage Perovskia atriplicifolia

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed

    Zones 5 to 9

  • saskatoon serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Moisture L – M (low to medium)
    • Native Native

    Zones not recorded

  • Showy stonecrop in late summer: fleshy grey-green leaves under broad flat heads of pink flowers
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    showy stonecrop Hylotelephium spectabile

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Shrubby cinquefoil in a foundation bed, dotted with flat yellow five-petalled flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    shrubby cinquefoil Potentilla fruticosa

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed
    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes
    • Native Native Range: Northern Hemisphere
    • Native Native
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native shrubs that we recommend for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)

    Zones 3 to 7

  • three-leaf sumac Rhus trilobata

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant listed for xeriscapes
    • Drought-tolerant Moisture L (low)
    • Native Native
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native shrubs that we recommend for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)

    Zones not recorded

  • Common yarrow: flat clusters of tiny white flowers over feathery, fern-like leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    yarrow Achillea millefolium

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Rarely browsed

    Zones 3 to 9

What the same lists say deer DO eat in Colorado

  • mountain ninebark Physocarpus monogynus

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Sometimes browsed

    Zones not recorded

  • A mugo pine in a rock garden: a low, dense mound of dark needles with pale new candles
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    mugo pine Pinus mugo

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Often browsed

    Zones not recorded

  • roses (shrub roses) Rosa spp.

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Often browsed

    Zones not recorded

  • A grove of quaking aspen in autumn: chalky white trunks with black knots under golden leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    quaking aspen Populus tremuloides

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Often browsed

    Zones 1 to 6

  • Rocky Mountain juniper Juniperus scopulorum

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Often browsed

    Zones not recorded

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Nurseries that carry this kind of stock

Listed in Colorado: Tagawa Gardens Centennial, Holly Acres Nursery and Garden Center Elizabeth, Front Range Landscape & Nursery Franktown, Jared's Nursery, Gift & Garden Littleton, Dreamscapes Landscape Center Northglenn, Pine Lane Nursery Parker. Set your area and the nearest come first, by distance and never by price. What any of them has today is theirs to answer. Every yard, by state.