The Southern Bog Lemming is a stocky, short-tailed rodent of sphagnum bogs, wet meadows, and forest edges in the eastern United States. It is most easily detected by the distinctive green-stained runways it leaves through lush vegetation and piles of clipped grass. Despite sharing the lemming name, it does not perform boom-and-bust population cycles like the Arctic true lemmings.
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