Agarics (Gilled Mushrooms)
The agarics are the most common group of mushrooms, consisting of about 60% of the fungi described in these pages. Here we have broken down this large group of mushrooms based on spore print color.
- White Spored or Pale Spored Mushrooms
- Spore print white to pale-yellow or pale-pink
- Genera: Amanita, Armillaria, Camarophyllus, Caulorhiza, Chromosera, Clitocybe, Cystoderma, Flammulina, Gymnopus, Hohenbuehelia, Hygrocybe, Hygrophoropsis, Hygrophorus, Laccaria, Lactarius, Lepiota, Leucoagaricus, Leucocoprinus, Leucopaxillus, Macrocystidia, Macrolepiota, Marasmiellus, Marasmius, Mycena, Omphalotus, Panus, Phyllotopsis, Pleurotus, Rhodocollybia, Russula, Schizophyllum, Strobilurus, Tricholoma, Tricholomopsis, Xeromphalina
- Pink Spored or Pinkish-brown Spored Mushrooms
- Spore print pink to pinkish-brown
- Genera: Entoloma, Pluteus, Volvariella
- Brown Spored Mushrooms
- Spore print yellowish-brown, rusty brown, clay colored, tobacco brown, earth brown, olive brown, dark brown.
- Genera: Agrocybe, Bolbitius, Conocybe, Cortinarius, Crepidotus, Dermocybe, Galerina, Inocybe, Hebeloma, Gymnopilus, Paxillus, Pholiota, Tubaria
- Purple-brown Spored Mushrooms
- Spore print cocoa brown, purple-brown, dark greyish-brown, violaceous-grey, dark brown.
- Genera: Agaricus, Hypholoma, Psilocybe, Stropharia
- Black Spored Mushrooms
- Spore print black.
- Genera: Chroogomphus, Coprinus, Gomphidius, Panaeolus, Psathyrella
White Spored or Pale Spored Mushrooms
- Amanita aprica
- Amanita calyptroderma
- Amanita constricta
- Amanita franchetii
- Amanita gemmata
- Amanita magniverrucata
- Amanita muscaria
- Amanita novinupta
- Amanita ocreata
- Amanita pachycolea
- Amanita pantherina
- Amanita phalloides
- Amanita protecta
- Amanita rubescens: Amanita novinupta
- Amanita smithiana
- Amanita vaginata
- Amanita velosa
- Amanita vernicoccora
- Anise mushroom: Clitocybe deceptiva
- Armillaria mellea
- Armillaria sinapina
- Armillaria ponderosa: Tricholoma magnivelare
- Armillariella mellea: Armillaria mellea
- Arrhenia epichysium
- Blewitt: Clitocybe nuda
- Baeospora myriadophylla
- Blusher: Amanita novinupta
- Baeospora myosura
- Calocybe carnea
- Camarophyllus pratensis
- Camarophyllus russocoriaceus
- Candy Cap: Lactarius rubidus
- Caulorhiza umbonata
- Chromosera cyanophylla
- Chrysomphalina aurantiaca
- Chrysomphalina chrysophylla
- Clitocybe albirhiza
- Clitocybe deceptiva
- Clitocybe glacialis
- Clitocybe inversa
- Clitocybe nebularis
- Clitocybe nuda
- Clitocybe odora
- Clitocybe sclerotoidea
- Clitocybe squamulosa
- Clitocybe tarda
- Coccoli: Amanita lanei
- Coccora: Amanita lanei
- Collybia badiialba: Rhodocollybia badiialba
- Collybia butyracea: Rhodocollybia butyracea
- Collybia cirrhata
- Collybia dryophila: Gymnopus dryophilus
- Collybia racemosa
- Collybia umbonata: Caulorhiza umbonata
- Crinipellis piceae
- Cystoderma fallax
- Death Cap: Amanita phalloides
- Fairy Ring Mushroom: Marasmius oreades
- False Chanterelle: Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
- Flammulina velutipes
- Floccularia albolanaripes
- Fly Agaric: Amanita muscaria
- Fried Chicken Mushroom: Lyophyllum decastes
- Gymnopus acervatus
- Gymnopus bakerensis
- Gymnopus brassicolens
- Gymnopus dryophilus
- Gymnopus subpruinosus
- Gymnopus villosipes
- Hohenbuehelia atrocaerulea var. grisea
- Hohenbuehelia petaloides
- Honey Mushroom: Armillaria mellea
- Hygrocybe coccinea
- Hygrocybe conica
- Hygrocybe flavescens
- Hygrocybe miniata
- Hygrocybe olivaceoniger
- Hygrocybe psittacina
- Hygrocybe punicea
- Hygrocybe singeri
- Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
- Hygrophorus chrysodon
- Hygrophorus eburneus
- Hygrophorus conicus: Hygrocybe conica
- Hygrophorus flavescens: Hygrocybe flavescens
- Hygrophorus agathosmus
- Hygrophorus bakerensis
- Hygrophorus caeruleus
- Hygrophorus gliocyclus
- Hygrophorus goetzii
- Hygrophorus hypothejus
- Hygrophorus miniatus: Hygrocybe miniata
- Hygrophorus pratensis: Camarophyllus pratensis
- Hygrophorus psittacinus: Hygrocybe psittacina
- Hygrophorus pudorinus
- Hygrophorus puniceus: Hygrocybe punicea
- Hygrophorus purpurascens
- Hygrophorus russocoriaceus: Camarophyllus russocoriaceus
- Hygrophorous subalpinus
- Jack-O-Lantern: Omphalotus olivascens
- Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis
- Laccaria fraterna
- Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia
- Lactarius alnicola
- Lactarius argillaceifolius var. megacarpus
- Lactarius camphoratus: Lactarius rubidus
- Lactarius deliciosus
- Lactarius fragilis var. rubidus: Lactarius rubidus
- Lactarius pallescens
- Lactarius pubescens
- Lactarius rubidus
- Lactarius rubrilacteus
- Lactarius xanthogalactus
- Lentinellus montanus
- Lentinus torulosus: Panus conchatus
- Lenzites betulina
- Lepiota atrodisca
- Lepiota cepaestipes: Leucocoprinus cepaestipes
- Lepiota cristata
- Lepiota lutea: Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
- Lepiota naucina: Leucoagaricus naucinus
- Lepiota rachodes: Macrolepiota rachodes
- Lepiota roseifolia
- Lepiota roseilivida
- Lepiota rubrotincta
- Lepiota magnispora
- Lepista nuda: Clitocybe nuda
- Leucoagaricus americanus
- Leucoagaricus barssii
- Leucoagaricus leucothites
- Leucoagaricus naucinus: Leucoagaricus leucothites
- Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
- Leucocoprinus cepaestipes
- Leucopaxillus albissimus
- Leucopaxillus amarus: Leucopaxillus gentianeus
- Leucopaxillus gentianeus
- Lyophyllum decastes
- Macrocystidia cucumis
- Macrolepiota rachodes
- Man on Horseback: Tricholoma flavovirens
- Matsutake: Tricholoma magnivelare
- Marasmiellus candidus
- Marasmius ameniacus
- Marasmius calhouniae
- Marasmius copelandii
- Marasmius oreades
- Marasmius plicatulus
- Marasmius quercophilus
- Megacollybia platyphylla
- Melanoleuca angelesiana
- Melanoleuca lewisii
- Micromphale arbuticola
- Micromphale sequoiae
- Mycena acicula
- Mycena adscendens
- Mycena amicta
- Mycena aurantiomarginata
- Mycena californiensis
- Mycena capillaripes
- Mycena galericulata
- Mycena griseoviridis
- Mycena haematopus
- Mycena maculata
- Mycena oregonensis
- Mycena overholtzii
- Mycena pura
- Mycena purpureofusca
- Neohygrophorus angelesianus
- Neolentinus ponderosus
- Omphalina pyxidata
- Omphalotus olivascens
- Oyster Mushroom: Pleurotus ostreatus
- Panther: Amanita pantherina
- Panus conchatus
- Parrot Mushroom: Hygrocybe psittacina
- Phyllotopsis nidulans
- Pleurotus ostreatus
- Pleurotus petaloides: Hohenbuehelia petaloides
- Pseudobaeospora stevensii
- Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis
- Redwood Rooter: Caulorhiza umbonata
- Rhodocollybia badiialba
- Rhodocollybia butyracea
- Rhodocollybia maculata
- Rickenella fibula
- Rickenella swartzii
- Rimbachia bryophila
- Rosy Russula: Russula sanguinea
- Russula abietina
- Russula amoenolens
- Russula atroviolacea
- Russula basifurcata
- Russula brevipes
- Russula densifolia
- Russula eccentrica
- Russula murrillii
- Russula sanguinea
- Russula silvicola
- Russula xerampelina
- Scarlet Waxy Cap: Hygrocybe punicea
- Schizophyllum commune
- Shaggy Parasol: Macrolepiota rachodes
- Split gill: Schizophyllum commune
- Spring Amanita: Amanita velosa
- Strobilurus albipitatus
- Strobilurus diminutivus
- Strobilurus trullisatus
- Tricholoma atroviolaceum
- Tricholoma dryophilum
- Tricholoma flavovirens
- Tricholoma fracticum
- Tricholoma griseoviolaceum
- Tricholoma imbricatum
- Tricholoma magnivelare
- Tricholoma moseri
- Tricholoma muricatum
- Tricholoma myomyces
- Tricholoma pessundatum: Tricholoma muricatum
- Tricholoma saponaceum
- Tricholoma terreum: Tricholoma myomyces
- Tricholoma vernaticum
- Tricholomopsis rutilans
- Velvet foot: Flammulina velutipes
- Western Grisette: Amanita pachycolea
- Witch's Hat: Hygrocybe conica
- Xeromphalina campanella
- Xeromphalina cauticinalis
Pink Spored or Pinkish-brown Spored Mushrooms
- Alboleptonia sericella
- Clitopilus prunulus
- Deer Mushroom: Pluteus cervinus
- Entoloma bloxami
- Entoloma madidum: Entoloma bloxami
- Entoloma nidorosum
- Nolanea holoconiota
- Pluteus atromarginatus
- Pluteus flavofuligineus
- Pluteus cervinus
- Pluteus petasatus
- Rhodocybe nitellina
- Volvariella speciosa
Brown Spored Mushrooms
- Agrocybe pediades
- Agrocybe praecox
- Agrocybe putaminum
- Bolbitius aleuriatus
- Bolbitius vitellinus
- Conocybe filaris
- Conocybe lactea
- Conocybe tenera
- Cortinarius magnivelatus
- Cortinarius rubicundulus
- Cortinarius vanduzerensis
- Cortinarius verrucisporus
- Crepidotus crocophyllus
- Crepidotus mollis
- Galerina autumnalis
- Gymnopilus luteofolius
- Gymnopilus sapineus
- Gymnopilus spectabilis
- Hebeloma crustuliniforme
- Hebeloma mesophaeum
- Hebeloma sinapizans
- Inocybe chelanensis
- Inocybe geophylla var. geophylla
- Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina
- Inocybe sororia
- Kuehneromyces vernalis
- Paxillus involutus
- Phaeocollybia kauffmanii
- Pholiota aurivella
- Pholiota flammans
- Pholiota highlandensis
- Pholiota spumosa
- Pholiota terrestris
- Pholiota velaglutinosa
- Poison Pie: Hebeloma crustuliniforme
- Tapinella atrotomentosa
- Tapinella panuoides
- Tubaria confragosa
- Tubaria furfuracea
- Tubaria punicea
Purple-brown Spored Mushrooms
- Agaricus albolutescens
- Agaricus arorae
- Agaricus arvensis
- Agaricus augustus
- Agaricus benesi
- Agaricus bernardii
- Agaricus bisporus
- Agaricus bitorquis
- Agaricus californicus
- Agaricus campestris
- Agaricus comtulus
- Agaricus cupreo-brunneus
- Agaricus diminutivus
- Agaricus fusco-fibrillosus
- Agaricus fuscovelatus
- Agaricus hondensis
- Agaricus lilaceps
- Agaricus meleagris: Agaricus praeclaresquamosus
- Agaricus micromegathus
- Agaricus pattersonae
- Agaricus perobscurus
- Agaricus praeclaresquamosus
- Agaricus semotus
- Agaricus stevensii
- Agaricus subrutilescens
- Agaricus xanthodermus
- Button Mushroom: Agaricus bisporus
- Champignon: Agaricus campestris
- Cypress Agaricus: Agaricus lilaceps
- Horse Mushroom: Agaricus arvensis
- Hypholoma aurantiaca
- Hypholoma capnoides
- Hypholoma fasciculare
- Meadow Mushroom: Agaricus campestris
- Naematoloma aurantiaca: Hypholoma aurantiaca
- Naematoloma capnoides: Hypholoma capnoides
- Naematoloma fasciculare: Hypholoma fasciculare
- Prince: Agaricus augustus
- Psilocybe coprophila
- Psilocybe cyanescens
- Psilocybe montana
- Psilocybe subviscida
- Rozites caperatus
- Simocybe centunculus
- Stropharia ambigua
- Stropharia coronilla
- Stropharia riparia
- Stropharia semiglobata
- Sulphur Tuft: Hypholoma fasciculare
- Torq: Agaricus bitorquis
- Yellow Stainer: Agaricus xanthodermus
Black Spored Mushrooms
- Chroogomphus ochraceus
- Chroogomphus vinicolor
- Coprinus atramentarius
- Coprinus auricomus
- Coprinus calyptratus
- Coprinus comatus
- Coprinus disseminatus
- Coprinus ephemeroides
- Coprinus flocculosus
- Coprinus lagopus
- Coprinus micaceus
- Coprinus plicatilis
- Coprinus sterquilinus
- Gomphidius oregonensis
- Gomphidius subroseus
- Haymaker's mushroom: Panaeolus foenisecii
- Inky Cap: Coprinus atramentarius
- Panaeolina foenisecii: Panaeolus foenisecii
- Panaeolus campanulatus: Panaeolus papilionaceus
- Panaeolus foenisecii
- Panaeolus papilionaceus
- Panaeolus retirugis: Panaeolus papilionaceus
- Panaeolus semiolvatus
- Panaeolus sphinctrinus: Panaeolus papilionaceus
- Pine Spike: Chroogomphus vinicolor
- Psathyrella candolleana
- Psathyrella gracilis
- Psathyrella hydrophila
- Psathyrella longipes
- Psathyrella longistriata
- Pseudocoprinus disseminatus: Coprinus disseminatus
- Shaggy Mane: Coprinus comatus