WRNA Plants and Animals

Plants and Animals in the Willamette River Natural Area

Collage of a fox, bumblebee, salmon, oak tree, elderberry, and owl.


The Willamette River Natural Area has a range of diverse plant and animal species, and the plan intends to conserve and develop both through natural habitat restoration. Below, you can find a list of these species, some of which have been confirmed onsite, while others have been seen in the area.

Animals

Confirmed onsite

   Fish

  • Largescale Sucker
  • Northern Pikeminnow
  • Redside Shiner
  • Speckled Dace
  • Spring Chinook Salmon
  • Three-Spine Stickleback
  • Pacific Lamprey
  • Weester Brooke Lamphrey
  • Non-native
    • Green Sunfish
    • Pumpkinseed

   Mollusks

  • Western Pearlshell Mussel

   Birds

  • Bald Eagle
  • Osprey
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Green Heron
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Willow Flycatcher (migration stopover)
  • Western Bluebird
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker
  • Cooper’s Hawk
  • Killdeer
  • Western Bluebird
  • Anna’s Hummingbird

   Amphibians

  • Pacific Tree Frog

   Mammals

  • American Beaver
  • North American River Otter
  • Long-tailed Weasel
  • Red Fox
  • Western Gray Squirrel

 Reptiles

  • Gopher Snake

Seen in the area (not confirmed onsite) 

   Fish

  • Oregon Chub

   Birds

  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Yellow Warbler (migration stopover)
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher (migration stopover)
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker
  • Great Horned Owl​​
  • Wilson’s Snipe
  • Rufous Hummingbird
  • Western Screech-owl

   Mammals

  • Camas Pocket Gopher
  • Mink
  • Townsend’s Big-eared Bat

 Amphibians

  • Northern Red-legged Frog
  • Clouded Salamander
  • Northern Red-legged Frog

 Insects

  • Native pollinators (diverse range of bees, flies, butterflies, etc.)
  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Western Bumblebee

Plants

Confirmed onsite

   Trees

  • Black Cottonwood
  • Bigleaf Maple
  • Pacific Willow
  • Sitka Willow
  • White Alder
  • Pacific Ninebark
  • Red-Osier Dogwood
  • Oregon Oak
  • Douglas Fir
  • Oregon White Oak
  • Incense Cedar
  • Bigleaf Maple

  Shrubs

  • Tall Oregon Grape
  • Common Snowberry
  • Osoberry
  • Red Flowering Currant
  • California Hazel

   Grasses 

  • Blue Wildrye
  • Roemer’s Fescue
  • California Brome
  • Slough Sedge

   Flowers

  • Common Selfheal
  • Showy Tarweed​​​​​​
  • Leichtlin’s Camas
  • Large False Solomon’s Seal
  • Starry False Solomon’s Seal
  • Denseflower Spike Primrose

   Ferns

  • Western Sword Fern

   Nettles

  • Stinging Nettle

Seen in the area (not confirmed onsite) 

   Trees

  • Ponderosa Pine

   Shrubs

  • Osoberry
  • Red Flowering Currant
  • Tall Oregon Grape
  • Red Elderberry
  • Thimbleberry
  • Oceanspray
  • Mock Orange

   Grasses

  • California Oatgrass
  • Tufted Hairgrass
  • Common Camas

   Flowers

  • Narrow-leaf Mule’s Ear
  • Yarrow
  • Douglas’ Spiraea
  • Tall Larkspur
  • Fragrant Popcorn Flower
  • Narrow-leaf Onion
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Orange-flowered Honeysuckle
  • Pacific Hound’s Tongue
  • Elegant Oregon Sunshine
  • Shooting Star
  • Farewell-to-Spring
  • Rose Checkermallow
  • Red Columbine
  • Western Trillium
  • Bigleaf Lupine
  • Willamette Valley Gumweed
  • Wyethia
  • Western Waterleaf
  • Pacific Waterleaf
  • Riverbank Lupine
  • Nootka Rose
  • Rosy Plectritis
  • Downingia
  • Showy Milkweed
  • Coyote Thistle (vernal pools)

 

 

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