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Mushrooms in Georgia
Updated October 2026 · from open GBIF records
7,730mushroom records
14county pages
Augbusiest month
7,730 records since 1850 (4,801 in the last 10 years)
Fruiting now
Based on past sightings (mostly since 2011; all years where recent records are few), not a forecast. Weather and place matter a lot, and a listing here says nothing about whether a mushroom is safe.
Usually recorded in January in this state:
Turkeytail Trametes versicolor31 January records since 2011
Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum10 January records since 2011
Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus9 January records since 2011
False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum9 January records since 2011- Cubamyces lactineus8 January records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus8 January records since 2011
Bitter Oysterling Panellus stipticus6 January records since 2011
Golden Bracket Fuscoporia gilva6 January records since 2011
Usually recorded in February in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor17 February records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis13 February records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum9 February records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum9 February records since 2011
Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune8 February records since 2011
Pear-Shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme7 February records since 2011- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus7 February records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus6 February records since 2011
Usually recorded in March in this state:
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune18 March records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum17 March records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum16 March records since 2011
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor16 March records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis13 March records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus12 March records since 2011
- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus11 March records since 2011
- Panus neostrigosus9 March records since 2011
Usually recorded in April in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor14 April records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum14 April records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis9 April records since 2011
- Panus neostrigosus6 April records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus5 April records since 2011
Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus5 April records since 2011
Usually recorded in May in this state:
- Panus neostrigosus17 May records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus14 May records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis13 May records since 2011
Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii13 May records since 2011- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum12 May records since 2011
Lumpy Bracket Trametes gibbosa11 May records since 2011
Jellied False Coral Sebacina schweinitzii10 May records since 2011- Golden Bracket Fuscoporia gilva10 May records since 2011
Usually recorded in June in this state:
- Cubamyces lactineus22 June records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum21 June records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii19 June records since 2011
False Caesar's Mushroom Amanita parcivolvata18 June records since 2011- Jellied False Coral Sebacina schweinitzii14 June records since 2011
Crown-Tipped Coral Artomyces pyxidatus13 June records since 2011- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis12 June records since 2011
Ornate-Stalked Bolete Retiboletus ornatipes12 June records since 2011
Usually recorded in July in this state:
False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites23 July records since 2011
Fragile Dapperling Leucocoprinus fragilissimus22 July records since 2011
Thelephora vialis19 July records since 2011
Ganoderma lobatum17 July records since 2011- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii16 July records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum15 July records since 2011
- Jellied False Coral Sebacina schweinitzii14 July records since 2011
- Ornate-Stalked Bolete Retiboletus ornatipes13 July records since 2011
Usually recorded in August in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor30 August records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites28 August records since 2011
Shaggy-Stalked Bolete Aureoboletus betula20 August records since 2011- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii20 August records since 2011
Plantpot Dapperling Leucocoprinus birnbaumii18 August records since 2011- False Caesar's Mushroom Amanita parcivolvata16 August records since 2011
Berkeley's Polypore Bondarzewia berkeleyi15 August records since 2011- Fragile Dapperling Leucocoprinus fragilissimus15 August records since 2011
Usually recorded in September in this state:
Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa55 September records since 2011- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor36 September records since 2011
- Shaggy-Stalked Bolete Aureoboletus betula21 September records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis18 September records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii17 September records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites14 September records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum13 September records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum13 September records since 2011
Usually recorded in October in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor29 October records since 2011
- Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa23 October records since 2011
Oak Bracket Pseudoinonotus dryadeus19 October records since 2011- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum16 October records since 2011
Eastern Stinkhorn Phallus ravenelii13 October records since 2011
Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina12 October records since 2011
Silver-Blue Milkcap Lactarius paradoxus10 October records since 2011- Poronidulus conchifer8 October records since 2011
Usually recorded in November in this state:
- Pear-Shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme27 November records since 2011
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor26 November records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum17 November records since 2011
- Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina16 November records since 2011
- Oak Bracket Pseudoinonotus dryadeus10 November records since 2011
Jelly Rot Phlebia tremellosa10 November records since 2011- Golden Bracket Fuscoporia gilva10 November records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus8 November records since 2011
Usually recorded in December in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor29 December records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum20 December records since 2011
- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis17 December records since 2011
- Pear-Shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme12 December records since 2011
- Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina12 December records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus12 December records since 2011
- Golden Bracket Fuscoporia gilva10 December records since 2011
- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus9 December records since 2011
⚠ Never eat a wild mushroom based on this site. We show where fungi have been recorded, nothing more. We never say any mushroom is edible or safe, and you shouldn't decide that from any website, app or photo. Many deadly mushrooms look like harmless ones. If someone may have eaten a wild mushroom, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 right away.
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Ranked by how often each appears in county top-40 lists. This is a guide to what gets recorded, not to what is common or safe.
Best months to look
Records by month, all years. Busiest: Aug, Jul, Jun.
Counties
Counties with fewer than 100 records (130) are listed here without their own page.
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Clarke County | 878 |
| DeKalb County | 762 |
| Rabun County | 690 |
| Gwinnett County | 446 |
| Fulton County | 349 |
| Chatham County | 287 |
| McIntosh County | 268 |
| Walker County | 222 |
| Towns County | 203 |
| Thomas County | 173 |
| Cobb County | 163 |
| Madison County | 124 |
| White County | 122 |
| Dade County | 104 |
| Henry County | 99 |
| Charlton County | 96 |
| Oconee County | 94 |
| Union County | 90 |
| Bibb County | 89 |
| Murray County | 86 |
| Floyd County | 84 |
| Jackson County | 83 |
| Oglethorpe County | 80 |
| Habersham County | 79 |
| Fannin County | 79 |
| Jones County | 76 |
| Glynn County | 75 |
| Bryan County | 72 |
| Forsyth County | 71 |
| Lowndes County | 69 |
| Greene County | 66 |
| Bartow County | 63 |
| Cherokee County | 62 |
| Brooks County | 61 |
| Richmond County | 58 |
| Barrow County | 56 |
| Hall County | 52 |
| Dawson County | 51 |
| Gilmer County | 49 |
| Columbia County | 47 |
| Lumpkin County | 43 |
| Spalding County | 43 |
| Camden County | 40 |
| Houston County | 40 |
| Newton County | 39 |
| Pickens County | 37 |
| Butts County | 35 |
| Stephens County | 33 |
| Ware County | 25 |
| Wilkinson County | 25 |
| Putnam County | 24 |
| Rockdale County | 24 |
| Walton County | 23 |
| Morgan County | 23 |
| Screven County | 23 |
| Troup County | 21 |
| Clayton County | 19 |
| Jasper County | 19 |
| Catoosa County | 19 |
| Paulding County | 19 |
| Clinch County | 18 |
| Tift County | 18 |
| Dougherty County | 17 |
| Harris County | 16 |
| Chattooga County | 16 |
| Coffee County | 15 |
| Baldwin County | 14 |
| Taliaferro County | 14 |
| Whitfield County | 13 |
| Monroe County | 13 |
| Cook County | 12 |
| Wilkes County | 11 |
| Peach County | 11 |
| Douglas County | 11 |
| Stewart County | 11 |
| Decatur County | 10 |
| Meriwether County | 10 |
| Sumter County | 10 |
| Laurens County | 10 |
| Early County | 10 |
| Grady County | 8 |
| Emanuel County | 8 |
| Dooly County | 8 |
| Muscogee County | 8 |
| Banks County | 8 |
| Echols County | 7 |
| Wayne County | 7 |
| Jenkins County | 7 |
| McDuffie County | 7 |
| Appling County | 7 |
| Macon County | 6 |
| Gordon County | 6 |
| Randolph County | 6 |
| Baker County | 6 |
| Jefferson County | 6 |
| Hart County | 5 |
| Tattnall County | 5 |
| Crawford County | 5 |
| Carroll County | 5 |
| Liberty County | 5 |
| Brantley County | 4 |
| Elbert County | 4 |
| Clay County | 4 |
| Bleckley County | 4 |
| Twiggs County | 4 |
| Montgomery County | 3 |
| Washington County | 3 |
| Bulloch County | 3 |
| Miller County | 3 |
| Heard County | 3 |
| Coweta County | 3 |
| Lee County | 2 |
| Lanier County | 2 |
| Colquitt County | 2 |
| Worth County | 2 |
| Crisp County | 2 |
| Lincoln County | 2 |
| Mitchell County | 2 |
| Taylor County | 2 |
| Ben Hill County | 2 |
| Talbot County | 2 |
| Berrien County | 2 |
| Telfair County | 2 |
| Effingham County | 2 |
| Upson County | 2 |
| Fayette County | 2 |
| Candler County | 2 |
| Seminole County | 2 |
| Evans County | 1 |
| Terrell County | 1 |
| Atkinson County | 1 |
| Chattahoochee County | 1 |
| Pierce County | 1 |
| Franklin County | 1 |
| Toombs County | 1 |
| Lamar County | 1 |
| Treutlen County | 1 |
| Irwin County | 1 |
| Dodge County | 1 |
| Pike County | 1 |
| Wheeler County | 1 |
| Long County | 1 |
| Hancock County | 1 |
| Marion County | 1 |
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