Baby’s Tears vs Mexican cottontail

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Sylvilagus cunicularius

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	Mexican cottontail
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Lagomorpha (Rabbits & Hares)
Family	Linderniaceae	Leporidae (Rabbits & Hares)
Genus	Lindernia	Sylvilagus
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Sylvilagus cunicularius

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

Mexican cottontail

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	Mexican cottontail
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Baby’s Tears

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Mauritius, Mexico, and Taiwan.

Mexican cottontail

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Baby’s Tears

The Baby’s Tears (Lindernia rotundifolia) is a species in the genus Lindernia. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.