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Plants for Wisconsin

60 plants, from deer-resistant lists, drought-tolerant lists and native lists held for Wisconsin.

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 Wisconsin

  • American elm Ulmus americana

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • American hophornbeam Ostrya virginiana

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • Austrian pine Pinus nigra

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 4 to 7

  • bald cypress Taxodium distichum

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant

    Zones not recorded

  • beautybush Kolkwitzia amabilis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • black chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 8

  • black gum Nyssa sylvatica

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • blackhaw viburnum Viburnum prunifolium

    shrub

    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • 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

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Blue mist spirea in a foundation bed: grey-green leaves with clusters of bright blue flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    blue mist spirea Caryopteris × clandonensis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 drought tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Northern and central United States, southeastern Canada
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 8

  • bush honeysuckle Diervilla lonicera

    shrub

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 7

  • butterfly bush Buddleja davidii

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 3 to 9

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 4 to 9

  • chinkapin oak Quercus muehlenbergii

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • cockspur hawthorn Crataegus crus-galli

    tree

    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • A Colorado blue spruce: a dense silvery-blue cone-shaped evergreen in a yard
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    Colorado blue spruce Picea pungens

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    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

    • Native Native Range: Central and northeastern North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 2 to 9

  • common juniper Juniperus communis

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • A common lilac beside a house, covered in cone-shaped clusters of purple flowers
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    common lilac Syringa vulgaris

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 3 to 7

  • concolor fir Abies concolor

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • feather reed grass Calamagrostis × acutiflora

    grass

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • fountain grass Pennisetum alopecuroides

    grass

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 9

  • fringetree Chionanthus virginicus

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant

    Zones not recorded

  • ginkgo Ginkgo biloba

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant

    Zones not recorded

  • green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    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 not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 8

  • inkberry Ilex glabra

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • Japanese barberry Berberis thunbergii

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant

    Zones not recorded

  • Japanese silver grass in autumn: an arching fountain of white-ribbed blades under silky pink plumes
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    Japanese silver grass Miscanthus sinensis

    grass

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • Japanese spirea Spiraea japonica

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Japanese tree lilac Syringa reticulata

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant

    Zones not recorded

  • Joe-pye weed Eupatorium purpureum

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern United States to Ontario and Quebec, Canada
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 3 to 8

  • kousa dogwood Cornus kousa

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • Lamb's ear edging a bed: a mat of woolly silver leaves with purple-pink flower spikes
    Generated image, not a photograph of any yard or of any yard's stock.

    lamb's ear Stachys byzantina

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    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 not favored

    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

    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern North America
    • Native native to WI

    Zones 2 to 8

  • northern catalpa Catalpa speciosa

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • Norway spruce Picea abies

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • obedient plant Physostegia virginiana

    perennial

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 3 to 9

  • paper birch Betula papyrifera

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 3 to 8

  • red pine Pinus resinosa

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 4 to 9

  • rose of Sharon Hibiscus syriacus

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • 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 not favored

    Zones 5 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 not favored

    Zones 3 to 7

  • smokebush Cotinus coggygria

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored
    • Deer-resistant deer resistant
    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant

    Zones not recorded

  • spicebush Lindera benzoin

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • staghorn sumac Rhus typhina

    shrub

    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • summersweet clethra Clethra alnifolia

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • swamp white oak Quercus bicolor

    tree

    • Drought-tolerant drought tolerant
    • Native native to WI

    Zones not recorded

  • tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

  • white spruce Picea glauca

    tree

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones 2 to 6

  • winterberry Ilex verticillata

    shrub

    • Deer-resistant not favored

    Zones not recorded

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Nurseries that carry this kind of stock

Listed in Wisconsin: Lowney's Landscape Center Appleton, Van Zeeland Nursery & Landscape Appleton, Lang Landscape Black Creek, Stuart's Landscaping & Garden Center Fond du Lac, Bluemel's Garden & Landscape Center Greenfield, Wolfrath's Nursery & Landscaping Hortonville, 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.