Plants & Animals
Leach Back Five
The Leach Botanical Garden Back 5 Acres Habitat has a diverse ecosystem of plants and animals. Here is a list of native species that have been spotted in and around the Back 5.
Plants & Animals
Birds
Pacific Wren
Bewick’s wren
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted nuthatch
Pileated woodpecker
Red breasted sapsucker
Red shafted flicker
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Brown creeper
Varied thrush
Stellar’s jay
Bald eagle
Cooper’s hawk
Sharp-shinned hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Raven
Crow
Great-horned owl
Barred owl (Invasive)
Screech owl
Robin
Swainson’s thrush
Yellow rumped warbler
Bushtit
Black capped chickadee
Chestnut backed chickadee
Junco
Kingfisher
Canada goose
Common merganser
Water ouzel
Mallard
Song sparrow
Pine siskin
Goldfinch
Lesser goldfinch
Plants & Animals
Mammals
Raccoons
Weasels
Coyotes
Shrews, Mice, Voles
Squirrels
Opossums
Rabbits
Plants & Animals
Mammals
Raccoons
Weasels
Coyotes
Shrews, Mice, Voles
Squirrels
Opossums
Rabbits
Plants & Animals
Amphibians
Ensatina salamander
Dunn’s salamander
Long toed salamander
Red-backed salamander
Red legged frog
Pacific chorus frog
Plants & Animals
Water Species
Lamprey
Caddis fly larvae
Signal crayfish
Freshwater mussels
Coho salmon
Largescale sucker
Plants & Animals
Water Species
Lamprey
Caddis fly larvae
Signal crayfish
Freshwater mussels
Coho salmon
Largescale sucker
Plants & Animals
Other Critters
Banana slugs
Native snails
Plants & Animals
Plants
Grand fir (Abies grandis)
Vine maple (Acer circinatum)
Bigleaf maple (A. macrophyllum)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolia)
Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
Slough sedge (Carex obnupta)
Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa)
Western wahoo (Euonymus occidentalis)
Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)
Pacific waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes)
Tall Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
Dull Oregon grape (M. nervosa)
Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii)
Pacific ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. benthamiana)
Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Cascara (Rhamnus purshiana)
Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
Blue elderberry (Sambucus caerulea)
Red elderberry (S. racemosa)
Douglas spirea (Spirea douglasii)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
Plants & Animals
Plants
Vine maple (Acer circinatum)
Bigleaf maple (A. macrophyllum)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolia)
Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
Slough sedge (Carex obnupta)
Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa)
Western wahoo (Euonymus occidentalis)
Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)
Pacific waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes)
Tall Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
Dull Oregon grape (M. nervosa)
Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii)
Pacific ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. benthamiana)
Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Cascara (Rhamnus purshiana)
Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
Blue elderberry (Sambucus caerulea)
Red elderberry (S. racemosa)
Douglas spirea (Spirea douglasii)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)