Baby’s Tears vs Mountain Goat

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Oreamnos americanus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	Mountain Goat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)
Family	Linderniaceae	Bovidae (Bovids)
Genus	Lindernia	Oreamnos
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Oreamnos americanus

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

Mountain Goat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	Mountain Goat
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.

Mountain Goat

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.