Checklist and Index to Common Names

A checklist box precedes the primary common name of each mushroom that is fully described; some other widely used names are also listed but not boxed.

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☐ Admirable Bolete 164
☐ Alaskan Gold 139
- Alcohol Inky Cap 131
☐ Almond Mushroom 105
- Almond-scented Russula 32
☐ Alpine Bleeder 116
☐ Angel Wings 36
- Anise-scented Clitocybe 53
- Apricot Jelly Mushroom 240
☐ Artist’s Conk 194, 195–196
☐ Aspen Bolete 170, 171–172

- Banded Agaricus 121
- Barometer Earthstar 223
☐ Bearded Milk Cap 19
☐ Bear’s Head 199
☐ Beefsteak Fungus 186, 187
- Beefsteak Morel 234
- Bell-shaped Panaeolus 128
- Bellybutton Hedgehog 202
- Big Laughing Mushroom 138
☐ Birch Bolete 169
☐ Bitter Bolete 162
☐ Bitter Brown
- Leucopaxillus 59
☐ Black and White Russula 26
- Black Chanterelle 10, 12–13
- Black Elfin Saddle 238
☐ Black Morel 229, 230, 231, 254
☐ Black Trumpet 10, 11, 160
☐ Blackening Russula 26
- Bleeder 117
☐ Bleeding Hydnellum 206, 207
☐ Bleeding Milk Cap 14, 15
☐ Blewit 54, 55
- Blood-red Cort 142
☐ Blue Chanterelle 12, 13
☐ Blue-green Anise Mushroom 53
☐ Blue Knight 190
- Blue Stain 244
- Blue-staining Slippery Jack 178
☐ Blusher 75
- Brain Mushroom 234
- Bristly Pholiota 137
☐ Brown Matsutake 88
☐ Brown Meadow Mushroom 112
☐ Butter Bolete 163

- Caesar’s Mushroom 67
- California Agaricus 111
- California Elfin Saddle 237
- California Red-dye 143
☐ Candy Cap 22, 23
☐ Cauliflower Mushroom 209
- Cep 154
- Chaga xv
- Champignon 113
☐ Chanterelle xxii, 1, 2, 3–4
- Chicken of the Woods 185
- Cloud Ear 243
☐ Cloudy Clitocybe 56
- Clustered Blue Chanterelle 12
- Coccoli 68
☐ Coccora 63, 68, 69
- Comb Hericium 199
☐ Common Volvariella 74
- Conifer Coral Hericium 199
☐ Corn Smut 250, 251
☐ Cowboy’s Handkerchief 47
- Crocodile Agaricus 103
☐ Crown Cup 240, 246
- Cuitlacoche 250–251
☐ Deadly Galerina 135
☐ Dead Man’s Foot 224, 225
☐ Dead Man’s Hand 226
☐ Death Cap 64, 65
☐ Deer Mushroom 38
☐ Delicious Milk Cap 16, 17
☐ Desert Shaggy Mane 227
☐ Destroying Angel 65, 66, 70
☐ Domestic Cup Fungus 245
- Douglas-fir Suillus 180
☐ Dung Bell 128
☐ Dung Dome 127
☐ Dyer’s Polypore 188, 189
☐ Early Morel 239
☐ Earthstar 215, 223
- Eastern Red-dye 145
☐ Emetic Russula 28
- Enokitake xviii, 37

☐ Fairy Ring Mushroom 50, 51
☐ False Chanterelle 43
☐ False Morel 234, 235
☐ Fat Jack 180
☐ Felt-ringed Agaricus 114
- Field Mushroom 113
☐ Flat-topped Agaricus 108
☐ Flat-topped
- Club Coral 212
☐ Fluted Black Elfin Saddle 238
- Fly Agaric 77
☐ Fly Amanita xvi, 76, 77
☐ Fragrant Russula 32
☐ Fried Chicken Mushroom 62
- Funnel Chanterelle 6
☐ Gemmed Amanita 79
☐ Giant Cypress Agaricus 118
- Giant Gymnopilus 138
☐ Giant Horse Mushroom 102, 103
- Giant Puffball 219
☐ Giant Sawtooth 39
- Girolle 2
- Glutinous Gomphidius 150
- Goat’s Beard 199
- Golden False Pholiota 139
☐ Golden Pholiota 136
☐ Granulated Slippery Jack 176
- Green Earth Tongue 214
☐ Green-spored Parasol 92, 93
- Grisette 73
☐ Gypsy Mushroom 140, 253
☐ Hawk Wing 204, 205, 207
☐ Hedgehog Mushroom 202, 203
- Hemispherical Stropharia 127
☐ Hideous Gomphidius 150
- Hollow-foot 182
☐ Hollow-stemmed Tamarack Jack 182
☐ Honey Mushroom 82, 83–84
- Hooded False Morel 235
- Horn of Plenty 10
☐ Horse Mushroom 104
- Huitlacoche 250
- Hygroscopic Earthstar 223
☐ Indigo Milk Cap 18
☐ Inky Cap 131
☐ Inrolled Pax 147
- Ivory Waxy Cap 47
- Jack O’ Lantern Mushroom 40
☐ Jumbo Gym 138
- Kaibab Slippery Jack 177
☐ King Bolete 152–153, 154, 155–158
☐ King Stropharia 124, 125

- Larch Bolete 181
☐ Large White Leucopaxillus 58
☐ Liberty Cap 129
- Ling Chih xv, xviii, 192–193
☐ Lion’s Mane xviii, 200
☐ Lobster Mushroom 248
☐ Ma’am on Motorcycle 98
- Madrone Bolete 174
- Magic Mushroom 130
☐ Man on Horseback 33, 61
☐ Manzanita Bolete 174
- Matsutake 86–88
☐ Matte Jack 183
☐ Meadow Mushroom 113
☐ Mock Matsutake 85
☐ Mock Meadow Mushroom 111
☐ Morel 228–229, 232
- Moretti 159
☐ Northern Red-dye 142, 143
- Oak Root Fungus 82
- Old Man’s Beard 200
☐ Orange Birch Bolete 152, 173
- Orange-juice Milk Cap 16
☐ Orange Milk Cap 24
☐ Orange Peel Fungus 244
☐ Oregon White Truffle 247
☐ Oyster Mushroom xviii, 33–34, 35
☐ Panther Amanita xix, 78
☐ Parasol 96, 97
☐ Parrot Mushroom 46
- Pfifferling 2
☐ Pig’s Ears 1, 7
- Pine Mushroom 86
☐ Pine Spike 148
☐ Pink-tipped Coral Mushroom 211
☐ Plums and Custard 42
- Poison Pax 147
☐ Poison Pie 146
- Pom Pom du Blanc 198–200
- Ponderous Lentinus 39
☐ Poor Man’s Slippery Jack 178
☐ Poplar Tricholoma 60
- Porcini 154
☐ Potent Psilocybe 130
☐ Prince 106, 107
- Pungent Slippery Jack 177
- Purple Fairy Club 208
☐ Purple-staining Bearded Milk Cap 20
☐ Queen Bolete 159
☐ Questionable Stropharia 126
☐ Red-belted Conk 191
- Red-capped Butter Bolete 163
- Red Coral Mushroom 208
☐ Red Hot Milk Cap 21
- Red-juice Milk Cap 15
☐ Red-pored Bolete 167
- Red-stemmed Bitter Bolete 162
☐ Redwood Rooter 49
- Rosy Gomphidius 151
☐ Rosy Russula 29
- Rufous Candy Cap 23
☐ Salt-loving Agaricus 119
- Sandy 60
☐ Satan’s Bolete 168
☐ Scaly Chanterelle 8, 9
- Scaly Hedgehog 205
☐ Scaly Pholiota 137
- Scarlet Cup 240
☐ Scarlet Waxy Cap 45
☐ Shaggy Mane 132, 133
☐ Shaggy Parasol xx, 81, 94, 95
☐ Shaggy-stalked Parasol 99
☐ Shaggy Stem 90
- Sheathed Armillaria 90
- Shiitake xvi-xviii
- Shimeji 62
- Shingled Hedgehog 205
☐ Short-stemmed Russula 14, 27
☐ Short-stemmed Slippery Jack 175
☐ Shrimp Mushroom 30, 31
- Siberian Slippery Jack 179
☐ Sierran Puffball 220, 221
☐ Slender Red-pored Bolete 166
☐ Slim Jack 179
- Slippery Jill 179
- Smooth Parasol 98
☐ Snowbank False Morel 236
☐ Southwestern Caesar’s Amanita 67
- Sponge Mushroom 232
- Spring Coccora 63, 69
☐ Springtime Amanita 70, 71
- Steinpilz 154
☐ Stinkhorn 241
☐ Strap Coral 213
- Strawberries and Cream 206
- Subalpine Waxy Cap 48
☐ Sulfur Shelf 184, 185
☐ Sulfur Tuft 134
☐ Sweat-producing Clitocybe 52
- Sweet Tooth 203
☐ Tamarack Jack 181
- Thimble Morel 239
☐ Toothed Jelly Fungus 201
☐ Tork 120, 121, 122–123
- Tree Ear 243
- Trumpet of Death 10
- Truncate Club Coral 212
☐ Tumbling Puffball 216, 217
☐ Turkey Tail 197

- Umbonate Slippery Jack 179
☐ Umbrella False Morel 237
- Varnished Conk 192–193
☐ Velvet Foot 37
☐ Velvety Black Earth Tongue 214
☐ Violet Cort 141
☐ Western Amethyst Laccaria 57
☐ Western Giant Puffball 218, 219
☐ Western Grisette 72
☐ Western Jack O’ Lantern
- Mushroom 40, 41
- Western Painted Suillus 183
☐ Western Red-dye 144, 145, 207
☐ Western Varnished Conk 192
☐ White Alpine Waxy Cap 48
☐ White Chanterelle 5
☐ White King Bolete 161
☐ White Matsutake 81, 86, 87
- White Morel 232–233
☐ Wine-colored
- Agaricus 115
- Wine-red Stropharia 125
- Winter Chanterelle 6
☐ Witch’s Butter 242
☐ Witch’s Hat 44
- Woman on Motorcycle 98
- Wood Blewit 54
☐ Wood Ear 243
☐ Woodland Agaricus 101
- Woolly Chanterelle 8
☐ Woolly Pine Spike 149
- Wrinkled Thimble Morel 239

- Yellow Chanterelle 2
☐ Yellow Coral Mushroom 210
☐ Yellow Foot 6
- Yellow Morel 232
☐ Yellow Parasol 91
☐ Yellow Stainer 110
☐ Yellow-staining Milk Cap 25
☐ Yellow-veiled Amanita 80
☐ Zeller’s Bolete 165
☐ Zeller’s Tricholoma 89