Winter Mushroom Guide: Identifying Common Wild Mushrooms (North America)

Even in the winter, you can discover edible and medicinal mushrooms on your forest adventures.

This guide to fall mushrooms covers many of the common wild mushrooms you will find in the winters in the vast forests of North America (Canada and the United States).

If you plan to go mushroom hunting this year, download this guide to your smartphone in iNaturalist and it will help you identify many of the mushrooms you will find in the forest during the winter season.

You will find many of these wild mushrooms across North America from the Carolinian Forests of Eastern North America to the Temperate Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and most geographical places in-between with thriving forests and woodlands. less ↑