Created: 2008-07-31 09:17:00

By: (else)

Summary: Lepiota lilacea is the suggestion

Comment: The annulus and the colour are more typical for Lepiota lilacea. This species does not have the bullet shaped spores, as L. cristata has, but ellipsoid spores. It shares the type of pileus covering (a hymeniderm, made up of tightly packed narrowly clavate elements, giving it its rather smooth surface and flat scales) with L. cristata. I have seen it fruiting all over Ann Arbor and it is common in Denver (my eastern experience is very limited), and i guess that it is common all over the east, but not well known.