Spores: summer

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Cortinarius caninus and C. anomalus are extremely similar. C. caninus differs by its cap being browner when young and having browner and more strongly developed veil remnants on the stipe. Both species have nearly round spores and a cap cuticle with a layer of enlarged, isodiametric cells just beneath the surface layer of radially arranged hyphae. There is a difficulty with these species in that the concepts have not been well defined. This it is hard to know if our species are the "real thing."

Sources: Trudell, Steve and Joe Ammirati. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Timber Press, Inc. 2009.