Deer Resistant Plants

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• Thalictrum dasycarpum Purple meadowrue Z 4-9

  Panicles of delicate dangling ivory flowers May to July, purple stems

  

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  Thalictrum dasycarpum    Purple meadowrue Z 4-9
  Panicles of delicate dangling ivory flowers May to July, purple stems.

  Size: 4-5’ x 2’
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to moist soil
  Native: All North America except Atlantic & Pacific coasts and northern Canada, Wisconsin native

  Collected for gardens by 1842.  Used by Native Americans to enliven horses by giving them seeds or rubbing a poltice on their muzzles. (Pawnee & Lakota)  Meskwaki, Ponca & Potawatomi used as an aphrodisiac.  Potawatomi smoked a mixture of this and tobacco before meeting their woman.  HoChunk used it to perfume smoke. For Potawatomi smoking dried seeds brought luck in hunting.  Ponca boys made flutes from the hollow stems.

• Thalictrum dioicum Early meadowrue Z 5-9

  Chartreuse blooms in spring

  

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  Thalictrum dioicum       Early meadowrue    Z 5-9
  Hanging chartreuse blooms dangle from the stems in spring

  Size: 30" x 24"
  Care: shade to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant.
  Native: Quebec west to No. Dakota, south to Georgia, Wisconsin native

  Cherokee made an infusion of the root to cure nausea and diarrhea.  Iroquois used it to remedy sore eyes and heart palpitations.  The plant also would “make you crazy.”  1^st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  Thomas Drummond collected this on the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains before 1800.

• Thalictrum lucidum Shining meadowrue Z 4-8

  creamy, fluffy puffs, smelling of roses, atop glossy, dark green leaves

  

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  Thalictrum lucidum  Shining meadowrue  Z 4-8
  In midsummer creamy, fluffy puffs, smelling of roses, atop glossy, dark green leaves. Tall, dark & handsome.

  Size: 3-6’ x 20”
  Care: sun to part shade, moist to moist well drained soil
  Native: France & Spain
  Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.

  Lucidum means “bright, shining.”  Collected before 1736.

• Thymus pseudolanuginosus Woolly thyme Z 4-8

  miniature, very hairy silver leaves, resembling wool. Lavender flowers in June.

  

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  Grown as a groundcover or in rock gardens for its miniature, very hairy silver leaves, resembling wool.  Lavender flowers in June.

  Size: 1” x 12” spreading slowly
  Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant. Deer resistant
  Native: Europe

  1^st mentioned in literature by Phillip Miller of Chelsea Physic Garden, 1771.