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Plants for Minnesota

23 plants, from deer-resistant lists, drought-tolerant lists and native lists held for Minnesota.

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 Minnesota

  • black chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Select drought-tolerant shrubs

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Black-eyed Susan: a loose plant with a few large yellow flowers with dark centres and bristly stems
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native native plant species

    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 Select drought-tolerant trees

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant

    Zones 4 to 9

  • 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 Select drought-tolerant trees

    Zones 2 to 9

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

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant

    Zones 3 to 7

  • ginkgo Ginkgo biloba

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Select drought-tolerant trees

    Zones not recorded

  • gray dogwood Cornus racemosa

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Select drought-tolerant shrubs

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 Select drought-tolerant trees

    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 Select drought-tolerant trees

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Lamb's ear edging a bed: a mat of woolly silver leaves with purple-pink flower spikes
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    lamb's ear Stachys byzantina

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant

    Zones not recorded

  • Little bluestem in autumn: an upright clump of copper-orange grass with silvery seed tufts
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    little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

    grass

    • Drought-tolerant drought-tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native native plant species

    Zones 3 to 9

  • 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

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant

    Zones not recorded

  • nannyberry Viburnum lentago

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant
    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Native

    Zones 2 to 8

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

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought-tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Eastern and central North America
    • Native Native
    • Native narrowleaf coneflower entry: SDSU (2025): narrowleaf coneflower is the only coneflower native to South Dakota — purple coneflower is not
    • Native native plant species

    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

    • Deer-resistant Deer resistant

    Zones 3 to 7

  • 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 Deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant Drought tolerant

    Zones 5 to 9

  • saskatoon serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia

    shrub

    • Native native plant species

    Zones not recorded

  • smokebush Cotinus coggygria

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Select drought-tolerant shrubs

    Zones not recorded

  • swamp milkweed Asclepias incarnata

    perennial

    • Native native plant species

    Zones not recorded

  • Wild bergamot in a meadow bed: shaggy pale lavender-pink flower heads on upright stems
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    wild bergamot Monarda fistulosa

    perennial

    • Native native plant species

    Zones not recorded

  • Wild columbine in a woodland garden: nodding red and yellow flowers with long red spurs
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    wild columbine Aquilegia canadensis

    perennial

    • Native native plant species

    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 Deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant Drought tolerant

    Zones 3 to 9

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Nurseries that carry this kind of stock

Listed in Minnesota: Colorful Seasons Garden Center Alexandria, Anoka Ramsey Farm & Garden Anoka, Swedberg Nursery Battle Lake, Landsburg Landscape Nursery Brainerd, Zywiec's Landscape & Garden Center Cottage Grove, A+ Garden Center Duluth, and more. 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.