The Michoacan Deermouse has a gray-brown back and white belly and legs. HMW records it in pine-oak forest, scrub, and fields, where it eats seeds, fruits, and shoots.
HMW describes a gray-brown dorsum, white belly and legs, and a tail equal to or slightly longer than head-body length.
HMW lists pine-oak forest, scrub, and cultivated fields as habitat. It eats seeds, fruits, and shoots, and sometimes invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.