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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Panaeolus, Panellus, panthercap, Panus, parachute, parasol, parchment, pax, Paxillus, pea-rock, pestle, Phaeocollybia, Phellodon, Phlebia, Pholiota, pig's-ear, pig's-ears, piggyback, pimple, pine conk, pine spike, pine-spike, pinkgill, pinky, pinwheel, plums-and-custard, Pluteus, poison-pie, poisonpie, polypore, porcini, porecrust, poria, potato, powder-cap, powdercap, powdery-piggyback, prince, prunes-and-custard, Psathyrella, psilocybe, puff-ball, puffball, puffbowlBelted Panaeolus (Panaeolus subbalteatus)
Habitat: Occurs on dung (often of horses) or dung-rich soil in gardens or lawns.
Habitat: Occurs on dung (often of horses) or dung-rich soil in gardens or lawns.
Haymaker's Panaeolus (Panaeolina foenisecii)
Ringed Panaeolus (Panaeolus semiovatus)
Panthercap (Amanita pantherina)
Description: Like clock-work in late winter to early spring, an amanita in the Amanita pantherina complex appears, especially in urban areas. Other members of this group fruit through summer and fall in a variety of habitats. They come in a variety of color forms, from pale yellowish tan ones that are similar to A. gemmata to dark brown ones that are more like classical European A. pantherina. The mushrooms are medium-sized or larger, the cap has striations on the margin, and the universal veil leaves conspicuous whitish warts and patches on the cap and a close-fitting volva with a distinct free rim (like slightly rolling back the top of a sock) around the bulbous stipe base. The gills are white and closely spaced, and the partial veil is white and leaves a skirt-like ring on the stipe. Here, again, applying a European name to a western North American mushroom might be incorrect. Our mushrooms may well not be “real” A. pantherina.
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: woodlands, rarely in pastures
Substrate: broadleaf trees
Spores: late winter to early spring
Description: Like clock-work in late winter to early spring, an amanita in the Amanita pantherina complex appears, especially in urban areas. Other members of this group fruit through summer and fall in a variety of habitats. They come in a variety of color forms, from pale yellowish tan ones that are similar to A. gemmata to dark brown ones that are more like classical European A. pantherina. The mushrooms are medium-sized or larger, the cap has striations on the margin, and the universal veil leaves conspicuous whitish warts and patches on the cap and a close-fitting volva with a distinct free rim (like slightly rolling back the top of a sock) around the bulbous stipe base. The gills are white and closely spaced, and the partial veil is white and leaves a skirt-like ring on the stipe. Here, again, applying a European name to a western North American mushroom might be incorrect. Our mushrooms may well not be “real” A. pantherina.
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: woodlands, rarely in pastures
Substrate: broadleaf trees
Spores: late winter to early spring
Hairy Panus (Lentinus strigosus)
Distribution: L. strigosus is a widely distributed species, occurring on logs and stumps of hardwoods whenever temperature and moisture conditions are suitable.
Spores: The spores are white, smooth, and non-amyloid
Distribution: L. strigosus is a widely distributed species, occurring on logs and stumps of hardwoods whenever temperature and moisture conditions are suitable.
Spores: The spores are white, smooth, and non-amyloid
Ruddy Panus (Lentinus strigosus)
Distribution: L. strigosus is a widely distributed species, occurring on logs and stumps of hardwoods whenever temperature and moisture conditions are suitable.
Spores: The spores are white, smooth, and non-amyloid
Distribution: L. strigosus is a widely distributed species, occurring on logs and stumps of hardwoods whenever temperature and moisture conditions are suitable.
Spores: The spores are white, smooth, and non-amyloid
Leaf parachute (Marasmius epiphyllus)
Stinking parachute (Gymnopus perforans)
Flaming parasol (Lepiota flammeotincta)
Flower pot parasol (Leucocoprinus birnbaumii)
Japanese parasol (Parasola plicatilis)
Habitat: Grows in grassy areas and among weedy plants along the edges of woodland trails
Habitat: Grows in grassy areas and among weedy plants along the edges of woodland trails
Onion-stalk parasol (Leucocoprinus cepistipes)
Red-eyed parasol (Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus)
Habitat: Very common and conspicuous in coastal and lower elevation forests.
Habitat: Very common and conspicuous in coastal and lower elevation forests.
Red-tinged parasol (Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus)
Habitat: Very common and conspicuous in coastal and lower elevation forests.
Habitat: Very common and conspicuous in coastal and lower elevation forests.
Saffron parasol (Cystoderma amianthinum)
Shaggy parasol (Chlorophyllum brunneum)
Shaggy-stalked parasol (Lepiota clypeolaria)
Small white parasol (Lepiota alba)
Smooth parasol (Leucoagaricus leucothites)
Habitat: It is a widespread mushroom that occurs mostly in grassy areas, gardens, and other human-influenced habitats, but also occasionally in forests.
Habitat: It is a widespread mushroom that occurs mostly in grassy areas, gardens, and other human-influenced habitats, but also occasionally in forests.
Stinking parasol (Lepiota cristata)
Yellow parasol (Leucocoprinus birnbaumii)
Hairy parchment (Stereum hirsutum)
Two-tone parchment (Laxitextum bicolor)
Inrolled pax (Paxillus involutus)
Habitat: P. involutus occurs in natural forest in our region but is not common there. It is much more common and abundant in parks and landscaped areas, where it is typically associated with birches, often along with Leccinum scabrum and Lactarius plumbeus
Habitat: P. involutus occurs in natural forest in our region but is not common there. It is much more common and abundant in parks and landscaped areas, where it is typically associated with birches, often along with Leccinum scabrum and Lactarius plumbeus
Strap-shaped pestle (Clavariadelphus sachalinensis)
Description: Clavariadelphus sachalinensis is one of several small slender members of the genus that are characterized by fruiting from a dense mycelial mat that permeates and binds the substrate and by having narrowly ellipsoid or sway-backed spores. All are initially pale yellow and become pinkish cinnamon to ochraceous cinnamon as they age. The entire upper portion of the club is covered with fertile tissue.
Distribution: Widespread in western and northern North America.
Habitat: Often these species can be found in large troops under conifers.
Description: Clavariadelphus sachalinensis is one of several small slender members of the genus that are characterized by fruiting from a dense mycelial mat that permeates and binds the substrate and by having narrowly ellipsoid or sway-backed spores. All are initially pale yellow and become pinkish cinnamon to ochraceous cinnamon as they age. The entire upper portion of the club is covered with fertile tissue.
Distribution: Widespread in western and northern North America.
Habitat: Often these species can be found in large troops under conifers.
Pretty Phaeocollybia (Phaeocollybia fallax)
Zoned Phellodon (Phellodon tomentosus)
Distribution: Common in PNW and occur elsewhere in the northern U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Habitat: Conifer forests
Distribution: Common in PNW and occur elsewhere in the northern U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Habitat: Conifer forests
Bitter Pholiota (Pholiota astragalina)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Occurs widely in the temperate and boreal areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Occurs widely in the temperate and boreal areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Bristly Pholiota (Pholiota squarrosoides)
Burnt-ground Pholiota (Pholiota carbonaria)
Destructive Pholiota (Pholiota populnea)
Flaming Pholiota (Pholiota flammans)
Golden false Pholiota (Phaeolepiota aurea)
Distribution: Widely distributed
Habitat: Usually found in the north temperate zone in disturbed areas of forests, such as along roadsides.
Distribution: Widely distributed
Habitat: Usually found in the north temperate zone in disturbed areas of forests, such as along roadsides.
Golden Pholiota (Pholiota aurivella)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Northern temperate and boreal forests
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Northern temperate and boreal forests
Ground Pholiota (Pholiota terrestris)
Lemon-yellow Pholiota (Pholiota limonella)
Pinkish-orange Pholiota (Pholiota astragalina)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Occurs widely in the temperate and boreal areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Occurs widely in the temperate and boreal areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Pointed Pholiota (Pholiota subflavida)
Poplar Pholiota (Pholiota populnea)
Slender Pholiota (Pholiota spumosa)
Terrestrial Pholiota (Pholiota terrestris)
Yellow Pholiota (Pholiota flammans)
Silky piggyback (Asterophora parasitica)
Description: Both Asterophora lycoperdoides and A. parasitica infect russulas and lacteriuses. The fruitbodies are relatively small, with a cap and stipe, either with distinct gills or thick, distant, and reduced ones. While both species are capable of producing basidiospores, they are noted for their production of asexual spores (chlamydospores). A. parasitica has a more conic, whitish, brownish, grayish or faintly lilac cap that forms large, smooth, elliptical chlamydospores on the gills.
Habitat: Woodlands
Substrate: Old fungal fruitbodies of russulas and lacterius
Description: Both Asterophora lycoperdoides and A. parasitica infect russulas and lacteriuses. The fruitbodies are relatively small, with a cap and stipe, either with distinct gills or thick, distant, and reduced ones. While both species are capable of producing basidiospores, they are noted for their production of asexual spores (chlamydospores). A. parasitica has a more conic, whitish, brownish, grayish or faintly lilac cap that forms large, smooth, elliptical chlamydospores on the gills.
Habitat: Woodlands
Substrate: Old fungal fruitbodies of russulas and lacterius
Orange mushroom pimple (Hypomyces lactifluorum)
Distribution: Broad Broad
Substrate: Hypomyces lactifluorum, the lobster mushroom, grows in the tissue of certain russulas and lactariuses in the PNW, especially R. brevipes, and turns the host mushroom into a dense mass of mummified tissue.
Distribution: Broad Broad
Substrate: Hypomyces lactifluorum, the lobster mushroom, grows in the tissue of certain russulas and lactariuses in the PNW, especially R. brevipes, and turns the host mushroom into a dense mass of mummified tissue.
Pine conk (Porodaedalea gilbertsonii)
Distribution: Western North America
Habitat: Coniferous forests with Pseudotsuga menziesii.
Substrate: Wood
Distribution: Western North America
Habitat: Coniferous forests with Pseudotsuga menziesii.
Substrate: Wood
Woolly pine spike (Chroogomphus tomentosus)
Description: Chroogomphus tomentosus is unusual for this group in being dry and somewhat fibrillose-wooly, rather than viscid, which makes it easy to identify once the spore color and decurrent gills have been noted. It is ochraceous orange when young, at which point it could possibly be mistaken for a golden chanterelle, and later may develop wine-reddish or purplish colors. Although it often is said that chroogomphuses associate only with pines, that is not true for C. tomentosus, as it often is found in mixed conifer forests that lack pines. It apparently occurs only in western North America.
Distribution: Occurs only in western North America.
Habitat: Often is found in mixed conifer forests that lack pines.
Description: Chroogomphus tomentosus is unusual for this group in being dry and somewhat fibrillose-wooly, rather than viscid, which makes it easy to identify once the spore color and decurrent gills have been noted. It is ochraceous orange when young, at which point it could possibly be mistaken for a golden chanterelle, and later may develop wine-reddish or purplish colors. Although it often is said that chroogomphuses associate only with pines, that is not true for C. tomentosus, as it often is found in mixed conifer forests that lack pines. It apparently occurs only in western North America.
Distribution: Occurs only in western North America.
Habitat: Often is found in mixed conifer forests that lack pines.
Mousepee pinkgill (Leptonia incana)
Silky pinkgill (Nolanea sericea)
Perma pinky (Ramaria rubripermanens)
Yellow-stemmed Pluteus (Pluteus romellii)
Sweet poisonpie (Hebeloma sacchariolens)
Veiled poisonpie (Hebeloma mesophaeum)
Bitter iodine polypore (Jahnoporus hirtus)
Black-footed polypore (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.
Black-footed polypore (Polyporus badius)
Black-footed polypore (Polyporus elegans)
Blue cheese polypore (Oligoporus caesius)
Blue-capped polypore (Albatrellus flettii)
Blue-pored polypore (Albatrellus caeruleoporus)
Description: Indigo or gray-blue when young, but quickly turns gray to gray-brown with age. The cap is often irregularly shaped, smooth or slightly scurfy, with an in-rolled margin. The decurrent pores are similarly colored, as is the stem, but the flesh when cut is cream to pale buff.
Habitat: conifer woodlands
Substrate: hemlock
Description: Indigo or gray-blue when young, but quickly turns gray to gray-brown with age. The cap is often irregularly shaped, smooth or slightly scurfy, with an in-rolled margin. The decurrent pores are similarly colored, as is the stem, but the flesh when cut is cream to pale buff.
Habitat: conifer woodlands
Substrate: hemlock
Bondarzew's polypore (Bondarzewia occidentalis)
Distribution: Western North America, on conifer roots.
Habitat: Terrestrial in coniferous forests, arising from conifer roots, sometimes at the base of stumps or trees.
Substrate: Terrestrial but on wood.
Distribution: Western North America, on conifer roots.
Habitat: Terrestrial in coniferous forests, arising from conifer roots, sometimes at the base of stumps or trees.
Substrate: Terrestrial but on wood.
Bone polypore (Oligoporus obductus)
Cinnabar-red polypore (Pycnoporus cinnabarinus)
Elegant polypore (Polyporus elegans)
False tinder polypore (Phellinus igniarius)
Flecked-flesh polypore (Phellinus igniarius)
Flett's polypore (Albatrellus flettii)
Fringed polypore (Polyporus arcularius)
Gelatinous pored polypore (Gloeoporus dichrous)
Giant mountain polypore (Bondarzewia occidentalis)
Distribution: Western North America, on conifer roots.
Habitat: Terrestrial in coniferous forests, arising from conifer roots, sometimes at the base of stumps or trees.
Substrate: Terrestrial but on wood.
Distribution: Western North America, on conifer roots.
Habitat: Terrestrial in coniferous forests, arising from conifer roots, sometimes at the base of stumps or trees.
Substrate: Terrestrial but on wood.
Golden spreading polypore (Porodaedalea chrysoloma)
Gray polypore (Cerrena unicolor)
Hexagonal-pored polypore (Polyporus alveolaris)
Larch polypore (Fomitopsis officinalis)
Many-colored polypore (Trametes versicolor)
Marshmallow polypore (Oligoporus leucospongia)
Habitat: Oligoporus leucospongia is a spring fungus of the western mountains that grows on conifer and sometimes aspen wood that has been buried in snow.
Habitat: Oligoporus leucospongia is a spring fungus of the western mountains that grows on conifer and sometimes aspen wood that has been buried in snow.
Milk-white toothed polypore (Irpex lacteus)
Mossy maze polypore (Cerrena unicolor)
Mustard-yellow polypore (Fuscoporia gilva)
Orange sponge polypore (Pycnoporellus alboluteus)
Distribution: It occurs throughout the western mountains, and also has been reported occasionally from the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada
Habitat: common high-mountain fungus in spring and summer, fruiting on conifer logs, especially those of spruce, and occasionally on aspen
Distribution: It occurs throughout the western mountains, and also has been reported occasionally from the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada
Habitat: common high-mountain fungus in spring and summer, fruiting on conifer logs, especially those of spruce, and occasionally on aspen
Pheasant's back polypore (Polyporus squamosus)
Red-belted polypore (Fomitopsis mounceae)
Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Widespread in northern North America and Appalachia in coniferous forests.
Origin: native
Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Widespread in northern North America and Appalachia in coniferous forests.
Origin: native
Rosy polypore (Rhodofomes cajanderi)
Rusty-gilled polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)
Scaly polypore (Polyporus squamosus)
Scaly yellow polypore (Albatrellus ellisii)
Sheep polypore (Albatrellus ovinus)
Description: Cream to buff cap, which becomes finely cracked and grayish brown or olive-green with age. The cap is an irregular funnel shape and the edge remains strongly in-rolled even in age. The minute, decurrent pores are white to pale yellowish when fresh, and bruise lemon-yellow. The stout stem is often positioned off-center and is whitish to cream, as is the cut flesh.
Habitat: Conifer woodlands
Substrate: Seen more often with white spruce
Description: Cream to buff cap, which becomes finely cracked and grayish brown or olive-green with age. The cap is an irregular funnel shape and the edge remains strongly in-rolled even in age. The minute, decurrent pores are white to pale yellowish when fresh, and bruise lemon-yellow. The stout stem is often positioned off-center and is whitish to cream, as is the cut flesh.
Habitat: Conifer woodlands
Substrate: Seen more often with white spruce
Smoky polypore (Bjerkandera adusta)
Description: Bjerkandera adusta forms flat or shelf-like, often overlapping, tough fruitbodies with smoke gray tubes and small, angular dark smoky gray or blackish pores. The surface of the caps is tomentose to somewhat hairy, cream to butterscotch in color, and not distinctly zoned. It is rather frequent on decaying hardwood logs and woody materials, rarely on conifers.
Habitat: Woodland
Substrate: stumps, logs, and dead trees
Description: Bjerkandera adusta forms flat or shelf-like, often overlapping, tough fruitbodies with smoke gray tubes and small, angular dark smoky gray or blackish pores. The surface of the caps is tomentose to somewhat hairy, cream to butterscotch in color, and not distinctly zoned. It is rather frequent on decaying hardwood logs and woody materials, rarely on conifers.
Habitat: Woodland
Substrate: stumps, logs, and dead trees
Spring polypore (Polyporus arcularius)
Staining cheese polypore (Oligoporus fragilis)
Tender nesting polypore (Hapalopilus nidulans)
Thin-maze flat polypore (Daedaleopsis confragosa)
Thin-walled maze polypore (Daedaleopsis confragosa)
Tinder polypore (Fomes fomentarius)
Tuberous polypore (Polyporus tuberaster)
Umbrella polypore (Polyporus umbellatus)
Veiled polypore (Cryptoporus volvatus)
Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington. Alaska to California, east across much of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
Origin: Native
Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington. Alaska to California, east across much of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
Origin: Native
Vermilion polypore (Pycnoporus cinnabarinus)
Violet toothed polypore (Trichaptum biforme)
White cheese polypore (Tyromyces chioneus)
White spongy polypore (Oligoporus leucospongia)
Habitat: Oligoporus leucospongia is a spring fungus of the western mountains that grows on conifer and sometimes aspen wood that has been buried in snow.
Habitat: Oligoporus leucospongia is a spring fungus of the western mountains that grows on conifer and sometimes aspen wood that has been buried in snow.
Winter polypore (Polyporus brumalis)
Yellow-red gill polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)
Cinnamon porecrust (Fuscoporia ferrea)
Common porecrust (Schizophyllum commune)
Frothy porecrust (Oxyporus latemarginatus)
Rusty porecrust (Fuscoporia ferruginosa)
Split porecrust (Schizopora paradoxa)
Earthy powdercap (Cystoderma amianthinum)
Star-bearing powdercap (Asterophora lycoperdoides)
Powdery piggyback (Asterophora lycoperdoides)
Description: Both Asterophora lycoperdoides and A. parasitica infect russulas and lacteriuses. The fruitbodies are relatively small, with a cap and stipe, either with distinct gills or thick, distant, and reduced ones. While both species are capable of producing basidiospores, they are noted for their production of asexual spores (chlamydospores). A. lycoperdoides, the larger of the two, soon has the surface of its founded cap covered by a brownish powder of star-shaped chlamydospores. It has a short, stout whitish stipe, and the fills are poorly developed.
Habitat: woodlands
Substrate: old fungal fruitbodies
Description: Both Asterophora lycoperdoides and A. parasitica infect russulas and lacteriuses. The fruitbodies are relatively small, with a cap and stipe, either with distinct gills or thick, distant, and reduced ones. While both species are capable of producing basidiospores, they are noted for their production of asexual spores (chlamydospores). A. lycoperdoides, the larger of the two, soon has the surface of its founded cap covered by a brownish powder of star-shaped chlamydospores. It has a short, stout whitish stipe, and the fills are poorly developed.
Habitat: woodlands
Substrate: old fungal fruitbodies
The prince (Agaricus augustus)
Habitat: Found in particularly in well watered areas under cedars and in disturbed areas, such as campgrounds or along trails or roads.
Habitat: Found in particularly in well watered areas under cedars and in disturbed areas, such as campgrounds or along trails or roads.
Clustered Psathyrella (Psathyrella piluliformis)
Distribution: It is common throughout the U.S., including the PNW
Distribution: It is common throughout the U.S., including the PNW
Date-colored Psathyrella (Psathyrella spadicea)
Dubious Psathyrella (Psathyrella incerta)
Ringed Psathyrella (Psathyrella longistriata)
Habitat: Occurs in mixed forests, often ones containing alder.
Habitat: Occurs in mixed forests, often ones containing alder.
Smooth-capped Psathyrella (Psathyrella subnuda)
Blueing psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanescens)
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Conifer psilocybe (Psilocybe pelliculosa)
Description: Sticky, dark brown, conical cap with brown gills and off-white, hairy stalk.
Distribution: Confined to the Pacific Coast
Habitat: P. pelliculosa typically grows in groups among herbaceous plants in disturbed forest settings. It often can be found along trails or the edges of forest roads.
Substrate: Conifer mulch in woods
Spores: September to November
Description: Sticky, dark brown, conical cap with brown gills and off-white, hairy stalk.
Distribution: Confined to the Pacific Coast
Habitat: P. pelliculosa typically grows in groups among herbaceous plants in disturbed forest settings. It often can be found along trails or the edges of forest roads.
Substrate: Conifer mulch in woods
Spores: September to November
Grass rotting psilocybe (Psilocybe inquilina)
Mountain moss psilocybe (Psilocybe montana)
Description: Small, dark brown mushroom; in moss.
Distribution: Has been reported from much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Habitat: Common at higher elevations
Substrate: Moss
Spores: July-September
Description: Small, dark brown mushroom; in moss.
Distribution: Has been reported from much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Habitat: Common at higher elevations
Substrate: Moss
Spores: July-September
Potent psilocybe (Psilocybe baeocystis)
Description: Sticky, conical, brown cap with brownish gills and off-white stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Scattered to numerous, in wood chips, on decayed wood, and decaying moss.
Spores: September-November
Description: Sticky, conical, brown cap with brownish gills and off-white stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Scattered to numerous, in wood chips, on decayed wood, and decaying moss.
Spores: September-November
Potent psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanescens)
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Rhododendron psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa)
Stuntz's psilocybe (Psilocybe stuntzii)
Description: Sticky, brownish cap with brownish gills and brownish, ringed stalk; bruising blue.
Distribution: It is not often found in natural habitats. It is another species apparently confined to the Pacific Coast, particularly the PNW.
Habitat: P. stuntzii occurs frequently in well mulched newly planted lawns, as well as in wood chips and other landscape settings.
Substrate: Coniferous wood-chip mulch
Spores: September-December
Description: Sticky, brownish cap with brownish gills and brownish, ringed stalk; bruising blue.
Distribution: It is not often found in natural habitats. It is another species apparently confined to the Pacific Coast, particularly the PNW.
Habitat: P. stuntzii occurs frequently in well mulched newly planted lawns, as well as in wood chips and other landscape settings.
Substrate: Coniferous wood-chip mulch
Spores: September-December
Wavy-capped psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanescens)
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Description: Tacky, wavy, brown cap, fading to yellowish, with brownish gills and whitish stalk; bruising blue.
Habitat: Several to many, in coniferous mulch
Spores: September-November
Warted puff-ball (Lycoperdon perlatum)
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Cotton-spored puffball (Calvatia lycoperdoides)
Curtis' puffball (Lycoperdon curtisii)
Desert stalked puffball (Chlamydopus meyenianus)
Dwarf puffball (Lycoperdon dermoxanthum)
Dye-maker's false puffball (Pisolithus arhizus)
Dyemaker's puffball (Pisolithus arhizus)
Flatcap stalked puffball (Battarrea phalloides)
Description: The Sandy Stiltball emerges from a whitish, buried “egg” that may remain at the stem base or disintegrate. The cap or head is covered by a white, membranous skin at first, but this later splits apart to reveal a rusty brown spore mass. The stem is hard, dry, shaggy-scaly, and pale brown.
Habitat: Dry woodland, scrub, and desert
Description: The Sandy Stiltball emerges from a whitish, buried “egg” that may remain at the stem base or disintegrate. The cap or head is covered by a white, membranous skin at first, but this later splits apart to reveal a rusty brown spore mass. The stem is hard, dry, shaggy-scaly, and pale brown.
Habitat: Dry woodland, scrub, and desert
Gem puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Gem-studded puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Habitat: L. perlatum can be found in disturbed sites, such as forest roadsides, from late summer through fall whenever there is sufficient moisture.
Giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea)
Substrate: fields, pastures, open woods, cemeteries, on exposed hillsides, along roads, in drainage ditches, etc.
Substrate: fields, pastures, open woods, cemeteries, on exposed hillsides, along roads, in drainage ditches, etc.
Pigskin poison puffball (Scleroderma citrinum)
Puffball parasol (Chlorophyllum agaricoides)
Description: chlorophyllum agaricoides produces a puffball-like fruitbody with a half-internal stem. The cap surface is smooth at first, then scaly, and white to cream, becoming buff to brownish. The inner spore mass is white at first, becoming yellowish to brown. The short stem is cap-colored with an indistinct ring joined to the base of the cap.
Habitat: Grass
Description: chlorophyllum agaricoides produces a puffball-like fruitbody with a half-internal stem. The cap surface is smooth at first, then scaly, and white to cream, becoming buff to brownish. The inner spore mass is white at first, becoming yellowish to brown. The short stem is cap-colored with an indistinct ring joined to the base of the cap.
Habitat: Grass
Purple-spored puffball (Calvatia cyathiformis)
Description: Spore case 5– 19 cm across and 8– 15 cm high, often pear-shaped with a tapered sterile base; outer surface at first whitish tan becoming brown, soon cracking irregularly and flaking off as it ages. Sterile base chambered, prominent, occupying most of the narrow lower part of the fruiting body, often persisting as vase-shaped remnants when the spores have been dispersed. Gleba (interior) at first whitish, becoming yellow grayish, finally colored purple-brown as spores mature.
Habitat: Prairie grasslands, fields, and desert communities
Spores: summer to fall
Description: Spore case 5– 19 cm across and 8– 15 cm high, often pear-shaped with a tapered sterile base; outer surface at first whitish tan becoming brown, soon cracking irregularly and flaking off as it ages. Sterile base chambered, prominent, occupying most of the narrow lower part of the fruiting body, often persisting as vase-shaped remnants when the spores have been dispersed. Gleba (interior) at first whitish, becoming yellow grayish, finally colored purple-brown as spores mature.
Habitat: Prairie grasslands, fields, and desert communities
Spores: summer to fall
Scaly-stalked puffball (Battarrea phalloides)
Description: The Sandy Stiltball emerges from a whitish, buried “egg” that may remain at the stem base or disintegrate. The cap or head is covered by a white, membranous skin at first, but this later splits apart to reveal a rusty brown spore mass. The stem is hard, dry, shaggy-scaly, and pale brown.
Habitat: Dry woodland, scrub, and desert
Description: The Sandy Stiltball emerges from a whitish, buried “egg” that may remain at the stem base or disintegrate. The cap or head is covered by a white, membranous skin at first, but this later splits apart to reveal a rusty brown spore mass. The stem is hard, dry, shaggy-scaly, and pale brown.
Habitat: Dry woodland, scrub, and desert
Sculptured giant puffball (Calbovista subsculpta)
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Sculptured puffball (Calbovista subsculpta)
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Sculptured puffball (Calvatia sculpta)
Sierran puffball (Calvatia sculpta)
Small tumbling puffball (Lycoperdon dermoxanthum)
Small warted mountain puffball (Calvatia subcretacea)
Smooth puffball (Lycoperdon molle)
Soft puffball (Lycoperdon molle)
Thick-skinned puffball (Scleroderma citrinum)
Tumbling puffball (Bovista pila)
Description: Spore case globose to subglobose, 2– 7 cm across; at first with white, fuzzy surface, wearing off to expose inner skin that is papery thin, metallic bronzy purplish, smooth; an irregular apical pore or simple ragged tear eventually forms near the top, releasing the spore mass; sterile base absent; base attached to soil by a single cordlike extension. Spore mass/gleba at first white, then becoming deep purplish, powdery; odor and taste mild.
Habitat: open woods and shrublands
Substrate: soil and leaf debris
Spores: late summer to fall
Description: Spore case globose to subglobose, 2– 7 cm across; at first with white, fuzzy surface, wearing off to expose inner skin that is papery thin, metallic bronzy purplish, smooth; an irregular apical pore or simple ragged tear eventually forms near the top, releasing the spore mass; sterile base absent; base attached to soil by a single cordlike extension. Spore mass/gleba at first white, then becoming deep purplish, powdery; odor and taste mild.
Habitat: open woods and shrublands
Substrate: soil and leaf debris
Spores: late summer to fall
Vase puffball (Calvatia cyathiformis)
Description: Spore case 5– 19 cm across and 8– 15 cm high, often pear-shaped with a tapered sterile base; outer surface at first whitish tan becoming brown, soon cracking irregularly and flaking off as it ages. Sterile base chambered, prominent, occupying most of the narrow lower part of the fruiting body, often persisting as vase-shaped remnants when the spores have been dispersed. Gleba (interior) at first whitish, becoming yellow grayish, finally colored purple-brown as spores mature.
Habitat: Prairie grasslands, fields, and desert communities
Spores: summer to fall
Description: Spore case 5– 19 cm across and 8– 15 cm high, often pear-shaped with a tapered sterile base; outer surface at first whitish tan becoming brown, soon cracking irregularly and flaking off as it ages. Sterile base chambered, prominent, occupying most of the narrow lower part of the fruiting body, often persisting as vase-shaped remnants when the spores have been dispersed. Gleba (interior) at first whitish, becoming yellow grayish, finally colored purple-brown as spores mature.
Habitat: Prairie grasslands, fields, and desert communities
Spores: summer to fall
Warted giant puffball (Calbovista subsculpta)
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Description: Calbovista subsculpta has low, somewhat flattened, pyramidal warts; it has a distinct sterile base below the gleba.
Spores: late spring through summer
Western lawn puffball (Vascellum lloydianum)
