Macrofungi
Covers mushrooms and other non-lichenized fungi that form multicellular fruiting bodies large enough to be seen with the unaided eye.
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Lackluster Laccaria (Laccaria laccata)
Two-colored Laccaria (Laccaria bicolor)
Western amethyst Laccaria (Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis)
Black-leg (Picipes badius)
Distribution: Global.
Habitat: Forests and woodlands.
Substrate: Wood, usually stumps, logs, and branches on the ground. Can be growing from buried wood.
Distribution: Global.
Habitat: Forests and woodlands.
Substrate: Wood, usually stumps, logs, and branches on the ground. Can be growing from buried wood.
Cockle-shell Lentinellus (Lentinellus cochleatus)
Ponderous Lentinus (Neolentinus ponderosus)
Scaly Lentinus (Neolentinus lepideus)
Distribution: N. lepideus is not common in natural habitats, but can be found on conifer logs and stumps in some areas. It is a brown-rot fungus and is more commonly encountered on construction timbers, railroad ties, and, in the past, on automobile frames when they were made of wood. It can occur almost any time but is most common in summer and fall.
Distribution: N. lepideus is not common in natural habitats, but can be found on conifer logs and stumps in some areas. It is a brown-rot fungus and is more commonly encountered on construction timbers, railroad ties, and, in the past, on automobile frames when they were made of wood. It can occur almost any time but is most common in summer and fall.
Blue-toothed Leptonia (Leptonia serrulata)
Liberty-cap (Psilocybe semilanceata)
Description: Slimy, narrowly conical, brown to tan cap with brownish gills and smooth, off-white stalk; in pastures and manured areas.
Habitat: Scattered to numerous, in tall grass and grassy hummocks in cow pastures.
Spores: Late August to November
Description: Slimy, narrowly conical, brown to tan cap with brownish gills and smooth, off-white stalk; in pastures and manured areas.
Habitat: Scattered to numerous, in tall grass and grassy hummocks in cow pastures.
Spores: Late August to November
Poor man's licorice (Bulgaria inquinans)
Substrate: dead hardwood logs, or branches, especially of oak.
Substrate: dead hardwood logs, or branches, especially of oak.
Starving man's licorice (Urnula padeniana)
White Limacella (Limacella illinita)
Flexible lorchel (Helvella elastica)
Distribution: H. elastica occurs in summer and fall in both conifer and hardwood forests.
Distribution: H. elastica occurs in summer and fall in both conifer and hardwood forests.
Lorchel (Gyromitra esculenta)
Wavy lorchel (Helvella crispa)
Snowbank lyophyllum (Clitocybe glacialis)
Description: Cap 2– 5 cm across, broadly convex with a turned-down margin; smooth, greasy or silky dry; silvery gray, with a hoary frosted look, more gray-brown with age. Gills narrowly attached, thin, a bit crowded or not; pale gray to gray-brown. Stalk 2– 3.5 × 0.5– 1.5 cm, equal; silvery pale gray with a hoary coating. Flesh watery gray; odor indistinct. Spore print white.
Distribution: Western snowbank mushroom
Habitat: Snowbanks or in cavities melted out of snowbanks
Spores: late May to early July
Description: Cap 2– 5 cm across, broadly convex with a turned-down margin; smooth, greasy or silky dry; silvery gray, with a hoary frosted look, more gray-brown with age. Gills narrowly attached, thin, a bit crowded or not; pale gray to gray-brown. Stalk 2– 3.5 × 0.5– 1.5 cm, equal; silvery pale gray with a hoary coating. Flesh watery gray; odor indistinct. Spore print white.
Distribution: Western snowbank mushroom
Habitat: Snowbanks or in cavities melted out of snowbanks
Spores: late May to early July
