Common Name
Eastern Cottontail
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Species Name
Sylvilagus floridanus
Status
Lower Risk
States
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
Distribution
Northern, central, and western Venezuela and adjacent islands and adjacent Colombia through Central America (disjunct in part); to northwestern Mexico, Arizona, north and east to North Dakota, Minnesota, northern Michigan, New York and Massachusetts, Atla
Notes
One of most familiar rabbits, mainly nocturnal but may be active and dawns or dusk. Sleeps under brush piles or in thickets or dense grass. Female may produce 20 to 25 young per breeding season. estricted to riparian habitats. A moderately large cottonta
Florida
Usually restricted to wetland habitats
Ohio
This is the most popular game animal in Ohio.
Oklahoma
Most common cottontail in OK
Oregon
Largest member of this genus in Oregon