The snowshoe hare ranges in length from 413 to 518 mm long and weighs between .097 and 1.814 kg. Its ears measure 62 to 70 mm from notch to tip. Snowshoe hares eat a variety of vegetation including green grasses, jewelweed, wild strawberry, dandelions, clovers, daisies and horsetails. These rabbits also eat new growth of trembling aspen, birches and willows. During the winter, the hare feasts on buds, twigs, bearberry, bark, balsam poplar, lodgepole pine and evergreens.
Snowshoe hares are experts at eluding predators.
They often freeze in their tracks to escape detection, but they can also swim and use speeds of up to 27 miles per hour to outrun their enemies, sometimes covering 10 feet in a single bound. The snowshoe hare's habitat stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland and goes as far south as the Rocky Mountain region of the United States.