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

Spring is the ideal time to learn about identifying mushrooms because there is less leaf litter or plant growth to obscure the mushrooms growing on the forest floor.

This guide to spring mushrooms covers many of the common wild mushrooms you will find in the spring months 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 spring 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 ↑