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Plants for Missouri

50 plants, from deer-resistant lists, drought-tolerant lists and native lists held for Missouri.

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 Missouri

  • American linden Tilia americana

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 2 to 8

  • Austrian pine Pinus nigra

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 4 to 7

  • Blazing star in bloom: upright spikes of fluffy rosy-purple flowers over grassy leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    blazing star Liatris spicata

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Blue false indigo in bloom: upright spikes of indigo pea flowers over blue-green leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    blue false indigo Baptisia australis

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A broad bur oak in an open lawn, with acorns in shaggy fringed caps on a near branch
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    bur oak Quercus macrocarpa

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Butterfly weed in bloom: flat clusters of bright orange flowers over narrow leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: Eastern and southern United States
    • Native Missouri native
    • Native native plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Catmint spilling over a garden path: grey-green leaves under spikes of lavender-blue flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    catmint Nepeta × faassenii

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 4 to 9

  • A chokecherry in spring bloom, hung with drooping spikes of small white flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    chokecherry Prunus virginiana

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 2 to 7

  • A Colorado blue spruce: a dense silvery-blue cone-shaped evergreen in a yard
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    Colorado blue spruce Picea pungens

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 2 to 7

  • A hackberry in a park lawn, its grey trunk covered in corky warts and ridges
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    common hackberry Celtis occidentalis

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    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 Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 7

  • creeping juniper Juniperus horizontalis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

  • crested iris Iris cristata

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Culver's root Veronicastrum virginicum

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • An eastern redbud in early spring, its bare branches covered in magenta-pink flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    eastern redbud Cercis canadensis

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 4 to 8

  • Fragrant sumac in autumn: a low mound of three-part leaves turning orange and scarlet
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    fragrant sumac Rhus aromatica

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Missouri native

    Zones 3 to 9

  • golden Alexanders Zizia aurea

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A honeylocust in a front yard in autumn, its fine pinnate leaves yellow and long brown pods hanging
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Japanese spirea Spiraea japonica

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 8

  • A Kentucky coffeetree after leaf drop, hung with thick dark brown seed pods
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    Kentucky coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Little bluestem in autumn: an upright clump of copper-orange grass with silvery seed tufts
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

    grass

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native native plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Missouri black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia missouriensis

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Missouri evening primrose Oenothera macrocarpa

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native forbs recommended for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)
    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • A ninebark shrub in bloom: lobed leaves, round white flower clusters and peeling stems
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    ninebark Physocarpus opulifolius

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern North America
    • Native Missouri native

    Zones 2 to 8

  • northern red oak Quercus rubra

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 4 to 8

  • Orange coneflower: a dense mound covered in small golden-orange flowers with dark brown centres
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    orange coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Orange daylily along a roadside ditch: trumpet flowers on bare stems over arching strap leaves
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    orange daylily Hemerocallis fulva

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

  • pagoda dogwood Cornus alternifolia

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 7

  • A ponderosa pine on a dry slope, its tall trunk plated in orange-cinnamon bark
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    ponderosa pine Pinus ponderosa

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 7

  • prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

    perennial

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Prairie dropseed: a fountain-like mound of fine green blades under airy seed heads
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis

    grass

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native native plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Purple coneflower in bloom: pink-purple drooping petals around spiky orange-brown cones
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea

    perennial

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

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Purple prairie clover: slender stems topped by thimble-shaped rose-purple flower heads
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    purple prairie clover Dalea purpurea

    perennial

    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native forbs recommended for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)
    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Red twig dogwood in winter: bright red bare stems over a dusting of snow
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    red twig dogwood Cornus sericea

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 3 to 7

  • A river birch with several trunks covered in peeling salmon and cinnamon bark
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    river birch Betula nigra

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: Eastern United States
    • Native Missouri native

    Zones 4 to 9

  • Russian sage in a gravel bed: silvery stems under a haze of lavender-blue flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    Russian sage Perovskia atriplicifolia

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 5 to 9

  • rusty blackhaw viburnum Viburnum rufidulum

    shrub

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Showy stonecrop in late summer: fleshy grey-green leaves under broad flat heads of pink flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    showy stonecrop Hylotelephium spectabile

    perennial

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    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 Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 7

  • spicebush Lindera benzoin

    shrub

    • Native native plants

    Zones not recorded

  • A sugar maple in autumn: a rounded crown blazing orange and gold over a front lawn
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    sugar maple Acer saccharum

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Missouri native

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Switchgrass in a border: an upright clump of blue-green blades under airy pink-tan seed heads
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    switch grass Panicum virgatum

    grass

    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought
    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Missouri native

    Zones 5 to 9

  • Threadleaf coreopsis: a fine, thread-leaved mound covered in small yellow star flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    threadleaf coreopsis Coreopsis verticillata

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

  • white spruce Picea glauca

    tree

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer

    Zones 2 to 6

  • 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 plants

    Zones not recorded

  • woodland sage Salvia nemorosa

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 4 to 8

  • 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 Tolerate: Deer
    • Drought-tolerant Tolerate: Drought

    Zones 3 to 9

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Nurseries that carry this kind of stock

Listed in Missouri: Longfellow's Garden Center Centertown, Rost Landscaping / Superior Garden Center Columbia, Pitchfork Landscape Material Co. Nixa, Hesemann Landscape & Supply Owensville, Richart's Stone & Garden Republic, Zick's Great Outdoors Nursery & Landscaping Wildwood. 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.