Mushroom Families
Morchellaceae - Morels - page 1
A well known family of edibles - Spores located in honeycombed pits.
Yellow Morel - Morchella esculenta {Spring}
Half Free Morel - Morchella semifera {Spring}
Veined Cup - Discitis venosa { Summer}
Helvellaceae - page 1
Fluted White Helvella - Helvella crispa { Summer - Fall}
Clavariceae - Coral Familiy- page 1
Resembles pieces of underwater coral, club shaped, to many branched.
white, yellow, pink, red, or purple. Most grow on logs and stumps.
Most are edible
Crown Tipped Coral - Claricorona pyridata
Crested Coral - Clavulina cristata
White Coral - Ramariopsis kunzeil
White Worm Coral - Clavaria vermicularis
Saracoscyphaceae - Elf Cups - page 1
Small to medium , pink to bright red cups with pale or white
exterior on short to long stalks. Grown on wood.
Stalked Scarlet Cup - Sarcoscpylylla rufa
Pezizaceae - pages 1- 2
Hairy Rubber Cup - Galiella rufa
Reciurved Cup - Peziza replana
Eyelash Cup - Scullinia scutella
Pink Crown - Sarcophaera crassa
Xylariaceae - Flask Family - page 2
Develope enclosed fertile surfaces witsch are coposed of
microscopic fask- shaped bodies (perititieia) fiilled spore sacs.
Dead Man's Finger's - Xylaria polymorpha
Carbon Antlers - Xylaria hypoxylon
Hypoxylon multiforme
Jelly Fungi -
Gelatinous , soft, vary in shape- bloblike, brainlike, earlike,
leflike, Some are transparent or colored. None are poisonous,
some are popular edibles.
Auriculariaceae - page 2
Tree Ear - Auricularia auricula
Dacrymycetacea- page 2
Club like Tuning Fork - Calocera cornea
Fan- shaped Jelly Fungus - Dacryopinax spatulata
Witche's Butter - Tremella mesenerica
Snow Fungus
Jellied False Coral - Tremellodendron
Black Jelly Drops
Chanterellaceae - Chanterelle Family - page 3
Well known edibles. Most are orangish, or yellow. most are convex,
or vase shaped. All lack true gills. They produce spores on rides or
on a smooth surface. Most live on the ground. Season summer.
Chanterelle - Cantherelus cibariius
Trumpet Chanterelle - Canthrellus tuberiformis
Smooth Chanterelle - Canthrellus lateritius
Cinnabar -red Chanthrelle - Cantherellus cinnabarinus
Coprinaceae -page 3
Orange mat Coprinus - Coprinus radians
Mica Cap - Coprinus micacaeus
Japanese Umbrella Inky - Coprinus plicatilis
Shaggy Mane - Coprinus comatus
Non Inky Coprinus - Coprinus diseminatus
Artist Crumble Cap - Psathyrella dileanata
Clustered Psthyrella - Psathyrella hydrophila
Troop Crumble Cap - Psuedoprinus disseminatus
Cortinariaceae - Cortinarius Family -- page 4
The largest of the brown - gilled mushrooms, most live in
forest or wooodland in micorrhizal relationship with trees.
Many are poisonous, and some are deadly.
Silvery Violet Cort - Cortinarius albovilaceus
Straw Colored Fiberhead - Inocybe lacera
Torn Fiberhead - Inocybe lacera
Earthblade Fiberhead - Inocybe geophylla
Lilac Fiberhead - Inocybe lilacina
Poison Pie - Hebeloma crustuliniforme
Corticiaceae - Crust Family - page 4
Coral Pink Merulius - Merulius incarnatum
Trembling Merulius - Merulius tremellosum
Red - tree Brain - Penifora rufa
Buff Crust - Corticum bobycinum
Hymenochaetaceae - page 4
Reddish Brown Crust - Hymenocaeate badio- ferriginea
Steraceae - Parchment Family - pages 4-5
Looks like polypores , but spores are produced on the
surface , instead of the pores, or tubes on the upper
surface like polyppores. Most live on dead wood, and
occur in late summer or fall.
Crowded Parchment - Stereum complicatum
False Turkey Tail - Strereum ostrea
Crepidotaceae Crepitotus Family - page 5
Primarily tropical mushrooms, brown spored. Typically
grows on wood and wood debris.
Fringed Tubaria - Tubaria furfuraceae
Jelly Crep - Crepidotus mollis
Flat Crep -Crepidotus applantus
Plutaceae - Pluteus Family - page 5
Salmon - brownish spores - and usually have
distinctive free gills.
Yellow Roof - Pluteus admirabilis
Senna Roof - Pluteus chrosophsophaeus
Fawn Mushroom - Pluteus cervinus
Golden Granular Pluteus - Pluteus aurantiifosus
Tree Volvariella - Volvariella bomycina
Hygrophoraceae- Waxy Cap Family - page 5-6.
Mostly small, waxy , brightly colored. White spored. On
moss, on the ground in wet open places. Late spring ,
Late fall. The caps are usually conical to convex, thick
fleshed, most are waxy.
Chanterelle Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus cantharellus
Witches' Hat - Hygrophorus conicus
Golden Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus flavescens
White Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus eberueus
Fading Scarlet Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus mininatus
Hydaneceae - Tooth Fungus - page 6.
Produce spores on teeth instead of gillls. The spines -like
teeth hang towards the ground. Some grow on the the
ground and some trees. Mosty in summer and fall.
Lion's Mane - Hericum ericum
Comb Tooth - Hericum ramosum
Red Juice Tooth - Hydnellum peckii
Kidney -shaped Tooth - Mychorrhaphium adjustium
Ochre -spreading Tooth - Steccherium ochraceum
Entolomataceae - Entoloma Family - page 6
A wide ranged family that varies with sizes and shapes.
All have attached gills, pink to salmond spore print.
All live the ground, or rotten wood - spring to fall.
Sweet Bread Mushroom - Clitocybe prunulus
Lead Poisoner - Entoloma sinuatum
Straight Stalked Entoloma - Entoloma strictius
. Aborted Entoloma - Entoloma abortivum
Early Spring Entoloma - Entoloma vernum
Slime Molds
Go through transformations -often in 24 hours. Slimy and
moldlike, when they first emerge. Soon they change color
shape and texture as they develope. They can be found
anywhere there is moisture, especially on wet decayed logs
and leaves.
Reticulariaceae - Page 6
Red Raspberry Slime - Tubifera ferruginosa
Wolf's Milk Slime - Lycogala epiderum
Trichiaceae -page 7
Carnival Candy Slime - Archyria denuta
Physacaceae page 7
Many -headed Slime - Physarum polycephalum
Scrambled Egg Slime - Fuligo septica
Stemonitaceae page 7
Tapioca Slime - Brefeldia maxima
Bolbitiaceae - Bolbitious Family - page 7
Common lawn and mulch fungi that seems to come up
overnight and are gone by afternoon.
Yellow Bolbitiious - Bolbitius vitellum
Maple Agrocybe - Agrocybe acericola
White Dunce Cap - Conocybe lactea
Hard Agrocybe - Agrocybe dura
Spring Agrocybe - Agrocybe praecox
Boletiaceae - Bolete Family - pages 7-8
Fleshy , stalked mushrooms that grow on the ground, instead
of gills they have spongelike tube layers. The spore print is
olive brown- pinkish, yellowish or black. Many are edible,
only a few are poisonous.
Indigo Milky - Lactarius indigo
Peppery Milky -Lactarius piperatus
Curry Milkcap - Lactarius champhoratus
Gold Drop Milky - Lactarius chysorrheus
Hygrophorus Milky - Lactarius hygorphoroides
Deceptive Milky - Lactarius deceptivus
Almond Scented Russula - Russula laurocerasi
Fragile Russula - Russula fragilis
Variable Russula - Russula variata
Purple Bloom Russula - Russula maria
Golden Brittle Gill - Russula flavipes
White Brittle Gill - Russula albidula
Scallop Brittle Gill - Russula pectinoides
Tricolomataceae -Tricoloma family - pages 8-11
A large and diverse group. Most have white or pale
spore prints, attached gills. Most are edible and
some are poisonous.
Violet Collybia - Collybia incephala
Little Brown Collybia - Collybia alkaliverens
Zone Cap Collybia - Collybia zonata
Oak Loving Collybia - Colllybia dryophila
Clustered Collybia - Collybia acervata
Tuberous Collybia - Collybia tuberosa
Hairy Stalked Collybia - Collybia spongiosa
Collybia subnuda
Fairy Ring Mushroom - Marasmius ordeades
Fetid Marasmius - Marasmius foetidum
Pinwheel Marasmius - Maramius rotula
Mycena filopes
Orange Mycena - Mycena l eatina
Coral Spring Mycena acicula
Walnut Mycena - Mycena latopallens
Common Mycena - Mycena galericulata
Bleeding Mycena - Mycena haematopsis
Blue Mycena - M. subcaeulea
Mycena nivepes
Yellow Stalked Fairy Helmet - Mycena epipterygia
Yellow white Melanuleuca - Meanuleuca alboflvida
Deep Root- Oudemansiella radiata
Elm Oyster - Hypsizgus tessulatus
Leaf like Oyster - Hobenbuebelia petaloides
White Oysterette - Cheimonophllina candidissimus
Orange Mock Oyster - Phyllostopsis nidulaland
Oyster Mushroom - Pleurtus osteratus
Ruddy Panus - Panus rudis
Smooth Panus -Panus conchatus
Wood Clitocybe - Clitocybe ectypoides
Purple Gilled Laccaria - Laccaria ochropurpea
Common Laccaria - Laccaria laccata
Chicken Mushroom - Laetiporus sulpureus
Xeromophallina kaufmanii
Rooting Collybia - Xerula fururacea
Ringless Honey Mushroom - Armillaria tabescens
Blewit - Clitocybe nuda
Polyporaceae - Polypore family - Pages 11-13
Have their microscopic spore producing basidia located on the
inside walls of tubes. Most are fleshy- tough to woody, are
shelf like or stalkless. Many survive the frost, and are perennial.
Some are choice edibles.
Dryad's Saddle - Polyporus squamosus
Umbrella Polypore - Polyporus umrellatus
White Cheese Polypore- Tyomyces chioneus
Blue Cheese Polypore - Tyomyces caesius
Red - belted Polypore - Fomistopsis pinicola
Cracked Cap Polypore - Phellinus rimosus
Artist's Conk - Gandoderma applantum
Ling Chih - Gandoderma lucidum
Violet Toothed Polypore- Trichaptum biformis
Smoky Polypore- Bjerkandreea adjusta
Shiny Cinnamon Polypore - Colticia cinnamonea
Elegant Polypore - Polyporus varius
Rooting Polypore - Polyporus radiactus
Beech Bracket
Orange Poria - Poria spissa
Little Nest Polypore -Poronidulus conchifer
Black Footed Polypre - Polyporus badius
Turkeytail - Trametes versicolor
Yellow-red Gilled Polypore - Gloephyllum sepairum
Resinous Polypore - Iscyhnoderma resionosum
Hen of the Woods- Grifolia frondosa
Pendulus - disk- Polypore - Porodisculus pendulus
Tinder Polypore - Fomes foementarius
Fringed Polypore - Polyporus arcularis
Milk - white Polypore - Irpex lacteus
Marshmallow Polypore -Spongipellus unicolor
Winter Polypore - Polyporus brunalis
Mossy Maple Polypore - Cerrena unicolor
Cinnabar - red Polypore - Polyporus cinnabarnis
Boletaceae - Bolete Family - page 14
Fleshy , stalked mushrooms that grown on the ground.
Instead of gills they have sponglike tube layers. The
spore print is olive - brown, pinkish, yellowish or black.
Many are edible, only a few are poisonous.
Violet Gray Bolete - Trilopilus plumbeoviolaceus
Two Colored Bolete - Boletus bicolor
Chestnut Bolete -
Summer Bolete
Ornate Stalked Bolete - Boletus ornatipes
Old Man of the Woods - Strobilomyces flocopus
Red Gyroporus - Gyroporus purprinus
Red Dot - Boletus rubropuntus
Bitter Bolete - Tylopilus felleus
Bay Bolete - Boletus badius
Amanitaceae - Amanita family - pages 14-16
Most live on the ground in the woods. All develope
from an egglike enclosure, that leaves patches on
the cap, and a cup at the base of the stem. All have
white spore prints. They have a mychorrizal relationship
with trees. Some are deadly like the Destroying Angel.
False Caesar's Mushroom - Amanita parcivolvata
Blusher - Amanita rubesens
Turnip Bulp Amanita
Powder Cap Amanita - Amanita farinosa
Booted Amanita - Amanita thurnata
Destroying Angel -Amanita virosa
Amanita bisporgerea
Cleft Foot Amanita - Amanita brunescens
Gemmed Amanita - Amanita gemnata
Citrin Amanita - Amanita citrinia
Yellow orange Fly Agaric - Amanita muscaria var. formosa
Grissete- Amanita vaginata var. vaginata
Tawny Grisette - Amanita fulva
Yellow Patches - Amanita flavacina
Strangulated Amanita - Amanita inaurita
Agaricaceae -Agaricus family - page 16.
Most live in forest, while others in grassy areas, compost and
roadsides. They are decomposers of organic material. Some
are edible, while some are poisonous.
Meadow Mushroom - Agaricus campestris
Horse Mushroom- Agaricus arvensis
Reddening Lepiota - Lepiota americana
Smooth Lepiota - Lepiota naucina
Stinkhorns- page 16
Fungus that you usually smell before you see them.
They begin as egglike structures (peridium)
A spore mass (gleba) developes in a green slime
that becomes strongly fetid . The spore mass is atop
stalklike strucuture or arms. The odor attacts insects,
that in turn disperse their spores.
Phallaceae - page 16
Dog Stinkhorn- Mutinus caninus
Devil's Stinkhorn-Phallus rubicunda
Lycoperaceae - Puffballs - pages 16-17
Have a spore mass (gleba) that is solid and white at
first , and becomes powdery as the spores mature. The
spore are dispearsed through a hole at the tope or
through a disintegration of the upper wall.
193. Granual Puffball - Archnion album
194. Spiny Puffball- Lycoperdon echatum
195. Gem-studded Puffball- Lcoperdon perlatum
196. Pear-shaped Puffball - Lycoperdon pyriforme
Geastraceae - Earthstars- page 17
Beaked Earth Star- Geastrum pectinatum
Nidulariaceae - Bird's Nest Family - page 17
The egg are little seed like cases , called petidioles,
that contain parts of the spore mass or gleba. The
splash cups disperse the eggs when raindrops fall in.
Splash Cups - Cyathus striatus
Strophariaceae - Stropharia family - page 17
This is a principle family of the hallucinogenic
mushrooms, but only a few are hallucinogenic,
some are edible, and are decomposers. They
grow on the ground, in lawns, humus, and dung.
Sharp Scaly Pholiota - Pholiota squarroides
Scaly Pholiota - Pholiota squarrosa
Paxilliaceae -Paxillus family - page 17
Poison Paxillus, Brim Cap - Paxillius involutus
Schizophyllaceae
Common Split Gill- Schizophyllum commune