Important Deer Food Plants by Scientific Names

Appendix C Plants of the Noble Foundation Wildlife Units Listed by sscientific name See Also: Photos Indexed by Common Name \| Photos Indexed by Family Name
Scientific name	Common name	Family	Relative occurrence^b
Acalypha gracilens	Three-seeded mercury	Euphorbiaceae	Common
Acalypha virginica	Three-seeded mercury	Euphorbiaceae	Scattered
Acer negundo	Box elder	Aceraceae	Common
Ambrosia artemisiifolia	Common ragweed	Asteraceae	Common
Ambrosia bidentata	Lanceleaf ragweed	Asteraceae	Common
Ambrosia psilostachya	Western ragweed	Asteraceae	Abundant
Ambrosia trifida	Giant ragweed, horseweed	Asteraceae	Common
Amorpha fruticosa	False indigo	Fabaceae	Scattered
Antennaria parlinii	Plainleaf pussytoes	Asteraceae	Common
Bidens aristosa	Coreopsis beggar-ticks	Asteraceae	Scattered
Bromus japonicus	Japanese brome	Gramineae	Common
Bromus pubescens	Canada brome	Gramineae	Scarce
Bromus tectorum	Downy brome	Gramineae	Common
Bromus unioloides	Rescue grass	Gramineae	Scattered
Callirhoe alcaeoides	Pink poppy mallow	Malvaceae	Scattered
Cassia fasciculata	Partridge pea	Fabaceae	Common
Cassia nictitans	Sensitive pea	Fabaceae	Scattered
Cerastium glomeratum	Clammy chickweed	Caryophyllaceae	Scattered
Cocculus carolinus	Carolina snail-seed, moonseed	Menispermaceae	Common
Conyza canadensis	Horseweed, mare’s tail	Asteraceae	Common
Cornus drummondii	Rough-leaved dogwood	Cornaceae	Scattered
Cornus florida	Flowering dogwood	Cornaceae	Scattered
Croton capitatus	Woolly croton, hogwort	Euphorbiaceae	Scattered
Croton glandulosus	Croton, tropic croton	Euphorbiaceae	Common
Croton lindheimerianus	Three-seeded croton	Euphorbiaceae	Scattered
Croton monanthogynus	One-seeded croton	Euphorbiaceae	Scattered
Desmodium canescens	Hoary tick clover, beggar’s-lice	Fabaceae	Scattered
Desmodium ciliare	Tick trefoil, littleleaf tick clover	Fabaceae	Common
Desmodium cuspidatum	Longleaf tick clover	Fabaceae	Scarce
Desmodium paniculatum	Panicled tick clover	Fabaceae	Common
Desmodium sessilifolium	Sessile tick clover	Fabaceae	Common
Dichanthelium clandestinum	Deertongue dichanthelium	Gramineae	Scarce
Dichanthelium lanuginosum	Woolly dichanthelium	Gramineae	Common
Dichanthelium laxiflorum	Open flower dichanthelium	Gramineae	Scattered
Dichanthelium oligosanthes	Scribner’s dichanthelium	Gramineae	Common
Dichanthelium ravenelii	Bosc dichanthelium	Gramineae	Scattered
Dichanthelium scoparium	Velvet dichanthelium	Gramineae	Scattered
Eclipta prostrata	Yerba de tajo	Asteraceae	Scattered
Eragrostis curvula	Weeping love grass	Gramineae	Abundant
Festuca arundinacea	Tall fescue	Gramineae	Abundant
Galium aparine	Catchweed bedstraw	Rubiaceae	Scattered
Galium circaezans	Weed bedstraw, wild licorice	Rubiaceae	Scattered
Galium pilosum	Hairy bedstraw	Rubiaceae	Scattered
Geranium carolinianum	Carolina cranesbill	Geraniaceae	Common
Geum canadense	White avens, redroot	Rosaceae	Scattered
Gleditsia triacanthos	Honey locust	Fabaceae	Common
Gnaphalium obtusifolium	Sweet everlasting, fragrant cudweed	Asteraceae	Scattered
Gnaphalium purpureum	Purple cudweed	Asteraceae	Scarce
Lespedeza capitata	Bush clover, roundhead lespedeza	Fabaceae	Scarce
Lespedeza cuneata	Sericea lespedeza	Fabaceae	Common
Lespedeza procumbens	Trailing lespedeza	Fabaceae	Common
Lespedeza repens	Creeping lespedeza	Fabaceae	Scattered
Lespedeza stipulacea	Korean clover, Korean lespedeza	Fabaceae	Scattered
Lespedeza striata	Japanese clover, common lespedeza	Fabaceae	Common
Lespedeza stuevei	Stuve’s lespedeza	Fabaceae	Scattered
Lespedeza virginica	Slender lespedeza	Fabaceae	Scattered
Maclura pomifera	Osage orange, bois d’arc	Moraceae	Abundant
Medicago orbicularis	Button clover, button medic	Fabaceae	Scarce
Melilotus albus	White sweet clover	Fabaceae	Common
Melilotus officinalis	Yellow sweet clover	Fabaceae	Common
Oxalis dillenii	Yellow wood sorrel	Oxalidaceae	Common
Polygonum aviculare	Prostrate knotweed	Polygonaceae	Scarce
Polygonum convolvulus	Wild buckwheat, dullseed cornbind	Polygonaceae	Scarce
Polygonum hydropiperoides	Mild water pepper, swamp smartweed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Polygonum lapathifolium	Curltop smartweed, pale smartweed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Polygonum pensylvanicum	Pennsylvania smartweed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Polygonum persicaria	Lady’s thumb, spotted smartweed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Polygonum punctatum	Water smartweed, dotted smartweed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Polygonum virginianum	Virginia knotweed, jumpseed	Polygonaceae	Scattered
Prunus angustifolia	Chickasaw plum, sandhill plum	Rosaceae	Scarce
Prunus mexicana	Big-tree plum, Mexican plum	Rosaceae	Common
Prunus rivularis	Creek plum, hog plum	Rosaceae	Scarce
Quercus macrocarpa	Bur oak	Fagaceae	Scattered
Quercus marilandica	Blackjack oak	Fagaceae	Common
Quercus muhlenbergii	Chinquapin oak	Fagaceae	Scattered
Quercus shumardii	Shumard’s oak, southern red oak	Fagaceae	Scattered
Quercus stellata	Post oak	Fagaceae	Abundant
Quercus velutina	Black oak	Fagaceae	Common
Rhus aromatica	Fragrant sumac, skunkbush	Anacardiaceae	Common
Rhus copallina	Winged sumac, dwarf sumac	Anacardiaceae	Scattered
Rhus glabra	Smooth sumac	Anacardiaceae	Scattered
Secale cereale	Rye	Gramineae	Scarce
Smilax bona-nox	Greenbrier, catbrier, bullbrier	Liliaceae	Common
Smilax tamnoides	Bristly greenbrier	Liliaceae	Scattered
Sorghum bicolor	Sorghum	Gramineae	Scarce
Stellaria media	Common chickweed	Caryophyllaceae	Scarce
Strophostyles helvola	Wild bean	Fabaceae	Scattered
Strophostyles leiosperma	Smooth seed wild bean	Fabaceae	Common
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus	Coralberry, buckbrush	Caprifoliaceae	Abundant
Torilis arvensis	Hedge parsley	Apiaceae	Common
Toxicodendron radicans	Poison ivy	Anacardiaceae	Common
Trifolium campestre	Plains clover, low hop clover	Fabaceae	Common
Trifolium dubium	Small hop clover, shamrock	Fabaceae	Scattered
Trifolium repens	White clover, ladino clover	Fabaceae	Common
Triticum aestivum	Wheat	Gramineae	Scattered
Ulmus alata	Winged elm	Ulmaceae	Abundant
Verbena urticifolia	White vervain, white verbena	Verbenaceae	Scattered
Verbesina alternifolia	Yellow ironweed, wingstem	Asteraceae	Scattered
Verbesina helianthoides	Crownbeard	Asteraceae	Scarce
Verbesina virginica	White crownbeard, frostweed	Asteraceae	Scattered
Vicia minutiflora	Small-flowered vetch	Fabaceae	Scarce
Vicia sativa	Narrowleaf vetch, common vetch	Fabaceae	Scattered
Vicia villosa	Hairy vetch, woollypod vetch	Fabaceae	Scattered
Vitis spp.	Grapes	Vitaceae	Scattered
^a Contains all terrestrial and emersed aquatic flowering plants identified on the NFWU. Also includes a few miscellaneous plants such as mushrooms and ferns. ^b The relative occurrence of plant species is based on subjective evaluation. The following categories are used to classify relative occurrence: Abundant—Easy to find; often a dominant over large areas. Common—Easy to find; seldom a dominant over large areas. Scattered—Not extremely difficult to find, but more so than ”common”; often thick with patchy distribution or sparse with good distribution; not dominant in the plant community Scarce—Difficult to find; often found in relatively small pockets; not well distributed. Unknown—Plants have been identified on the NFWU, but the authors are unfamiliar with them; most of these plants would probably be categorized as “scarce.”

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