Survey of Northern Illinois Fungi

Survey of Northern Illinois Fungi conducted by Department of Botany The Field Museum of Natural HistoryImages

With hundreds of macrofungi occurring in Northern Illinois and Indiana, the following list of images is necessarily incomplete. We will add more later, so check back.

Many thanks to the Biodiversity Explorers for their help collecting and curating these fungi!

Biodiversity Explorers '95
(Left to right) Anthony Amend, Gina Wesley, Monique Tran, Alex Janus, Ismial Morrar
Not shown: Elizabeth Salgado and Irene Lee

Biodiversity Explorers '96
(Left to right, bottom to top) Bertha Alaniz, Genevieve Nano, Tomisha Smith, Michael Fonte, Gina Wesley, and Mario McHarris.

Biodiversity Explorers '97
(Left to right, bottom to top) Hope Han, Sonja Berg, Victoria Maldonado, Jason Campbell, Karlo Marcelo, Annette Cramer, Kendrew Slater, Byron Espinoza, Genevieve Nano, and Jack Murphy.

A sampling of macrofungi.

Collybia biformis

Collybia spongiosa

Collybia subnuda

Collybia subsulphurea

Flammulaster erinaceela

Hericium ramosum

Inocybe fastigiata

Laccaria amethystina

Lactarius mutabilis

Leccinum rugosiceps

Lycoperdon pyriforme

Mycena acicula

Mycena haematopus

Resupinatus applicatus

Russula pectinatoides

Russula silvicola

Russula variata

Sarcodon imbricatum

Scleroderma citrinum

Simocybe centunculus

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