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Integrated Pest Management
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Table 1. Comparative Deer-Resistance In Ornamentals

Plants Rarely Damaged
Barberry  Common Boxwood
Common Barberry  Colorado Blue Spruce
Drooping Leucothoe  American Holly
Russian Olive  Japanese Pieris
Paper Birch  


Plants Seldom Severely Damaged
European White Birch  Beautybush 
American Bittersweet  Norway Spruce  
Red Osier Dogwood  White Spruce 
Flowering Dogwood  Austrian Pine 
Kousa Dogwood  Pitch Pine 
English Hawthorn  Mugo Pine 
Redvein Enkianthus  Red Pine 
European Beech  Scots Pine 
Forsythia  Japanese Flowering Cherry 
Honey Locust    Corkscrew Willow 
Chinese Holly   Common Sassafras
Inkberry   Common Lilac
Chinese Junipers (green & blue)   Japanese Wisteria 
Mountain Laurel    

Plants Occasionally Severely Damaged
 White Fir  Japanese Tree Lilac
 Panicle Hydrangea  Smokebush
 Deciduous Azaleas  Eastern WhitePine
 Paperbark Maple  Late Lilac
 Japanese Holly  Cotoneaster
 Carolina Rhododendron  Bush Cinquefoil
 Red Maple  Greenspire Littleleaf Linden
 China Girl/Boy Holly  Cranberry Cotoneaster
 Rosebay Rhododendron  Sweet Cherry
 Silver Maple  Basswood
 Eastern Red Cedar  Rockspray Cotoneaster
 Staghorn Sumac  Douglas Fir
 Sugar Maple  Eastern Hemlock
 European Larch  Japanese Cedar
 Multiflora Rose  Firethorn
 Common Horsechestnut  Carolina Hemlock
 Goldflame Honeysuckle  Border Forsythia
  Rugosa Rose  Bradford Callery Pear
 Downy Serviceberry  Judd Viburnum
 Privet  Common Witchhazel
 Willows  Common Pear
 Allegheny Serviceberry  Leatherleaf Viburnum
  Saucer Magnolia  Rose of Sharon
 Anthony Waterer Spiraea  White Oak
 Trumpet Creeper  Doublefile Viburnum
 Dawn Redwood  Smooth Hydrangea
 Bridalwreath Spiraea  Chestnut Oak
 Japanese Flowering Quince  Koreanspice Viburnum
 Virginia Creeper  Climbing Hydrangea
 Persian Lilac  Northern Red Oak
 Panicled Dogwood  Oldfashion Weigela
 Sweet Mock Orange  

Plants Frequently Severely Damaged
 Balsam Fir  Plums
 Wintercreeper  Western Yew
 Hybrid Tea Rose  Clematis
 Fraser Fir  Evergreen Azaleas
 English Ivy  Japanese Yew
 European Mountain Ash  Cornelian Dogwood
 Norway Maple  Catawba Rhododendron
 Apples  English/Japanese Hybrid Yew
 Yews  Winged Euonymus
 Eastern Redbud  Pinxterbboom Azalea
 Cherries  American Arborvitae
 English Yew  Atlantic White Cedar

Winged Euonymus may not be frequently severely damaged in New England
Crabapple does not appear on the list but may be frequently severely damaged in New England.
Originally published: Hort Impact. 1992. Vol. 92-11. p. 2.

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