Since many share overlapping territories they will often cross breed If you find a snake of this description in Florida outside the Apalachicola River Valley or the extreme western end of the Panhandle, chances are that you have instead found a young cottonmouth or a nonvenomous watersnake Within the range of the copperhead in Florida, there are three snake species that can look similarThe cottonmouth, also known as the water moccassin is closely related to the copperhead Young cottomouths and copperheads are sometimes difficult to distinguish from one another by the untrained eye Cottonmouths inhabit areas near water such as slow moving creeks, rivers, swamps and even retention ponds and ditches
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