SPECIES GALLERY
We have created a catalogue of some of the species you can find in Esquimalt Gorge Park! To find out more about the species, click on the images below. For more information on species you can find in the park, check out the Esquimalt Gorge Park iNaturalist page.
Trees
Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
Shore Pine (Pinus contorta contorta)
Coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Western (Pacific) Yew (Taxus brevifolia)
Garry Oak (Quercus garryana)
Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata)
Pacific Arbutus
(Arbutus menziesii)
Red Alder (Alnus rubra)
Shrubs
Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Pacific Willow (Salix lucida)
Hardhack (Spiraea douglasii)
Red-Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Nootka Rose (Rosa nutkana)
Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)
Trailing Blackberry (Rubus ursinus)
Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)
Herbs
Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
Fragrant Bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
White Stonecrop (Sedum album)
Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Purple Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius)
Crocus (Crocus spp.)
Queen Anne's Lace/Wild Carrot (Daucus carrot)
English Ivy (Hedera helix)
Salt Marsh Dodder (Cuscuta salina)
Entire-leaved Gumweed (Grindelia integrifolia)
Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
Water Plants
Eelgrass (Zostera marina)
Mazzaella splendens
Sea Asparagus (Salicornea virginica)
Birds
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte Anna)
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)
Pacific Wren (Troglodytes Pacificus)
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
Barred Owl (Stix varia)
Golden-Crowned Kinglet (Sitta canadensis)
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula)
Terrestrial Invertebrates
Common Striped Woodlouse (Philoscia muscorum)
Lorquin’s Admiral (Limenitis lorquini)
Crane Fly (Family Tipulidae)
Skipper Butterfly (Family Hesperiidae)
European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
Hoverfly (Family Syrphidae)
Leafcutter Bee (Family Megachilidae)
Fungi
False Turkey Tail (Stereum hirsutum)
Red Belted Conk (Fomitopsis pinicola)
Western Elfin Saddle (Helvella vespertina)
Witches’ Butter (Tremella mesenterica)
Sea Life
Bay Pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus)
Pacific Blood Star (Henricia leviuscula)
California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus)
Short Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile)
Graceful Decorator Crab (Oregonia gracilis)
Tidepool Sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus)
Hermit Crab (Superfamily Paguroidea)
Mossy chiton (Mopalia muscosa)
Plankton
Bivalve Veligers (Bivalve Veligers)
Nauplius Larva (Spionidae)
Copepoda (Subclass Copepoda)
Phylum Rotifers
Diatoms (phylum Bacillariophyta)
Polyclad Flatworms (phylum platyhelminthes)
Foraminifera
Gastropod Veligers