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Mushrooms in North Carolina
Updated October 2026 · from open GBIF records
46,296mushroom records
32county pages
Augbusiest month
46,296 records since 1776 (8,425 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 versicolor28 January records since 2011
Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum20 January records since 2011
Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune15 January records since 2011- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus8 January records since 2011
Ceramic Parchment Xylobolus frustulatus8 January records since 2011
False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum8 January records since 2011
Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus7 January records since 2011
Deadly Galerina Galerina marginata7 January records since 2011
Usually recorded in February in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor35 February records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune20 February records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus17 February records since 2011
- Ceramic Parchment Xylobolus frustulatus15 February records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum11 February records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum11 February records since 2011
Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii9 February records since 2011
Asian Beauty Radulomyces copelandii8 February records since 2011
Usually recorded in March in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor24 March records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune17 March records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum10 March records since 2011
Lumpy Bracket Trametes gibbosa10 March records since 2011- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus10 March records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum10 March records since 2011
Gelatinous Stalked Puffball Calostoma cinnabarinum7 March records since 2011
Usually recorded in April in this state:
Dryad's Saddle Cerioporus squamosus26 April records across all years- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor15 April records across all years
Jelly Ear Auricularia auricula-judae11 April records across all years
Spring Polypore Lentinus arcularius10 April records across all years
Hemlock Varnish Shelf Ganoderma tsugae8 April records across all years- Fungi Pallidohirschioporus biformis6 April records across all years
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune6 April records across all years
Hairy Bracket Trametes hirsuta6 April records across all years
Usually recorded in May in this state:
- Hemlock Varnish Shelf Ganoderma tsugae24 May records since 2011
Chicken Of The Woods Laetiporus sulphureus13 May records since 2011
Devil's Dipstick Mutinus elegans13 May records since 2011- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune13 May records since 2011
Protohydnum album11 May records since 2011
Fuzzy Foot Xeromphalina campanella10 May records since 2011
Crown-Tipped Coral Artomyces pyxidatus10 May records since 2011- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor7 May records since 2011
Usually recorded in June in this state:
- Hemlock Varnish Shelf Ganoderma tsugae26 June records since 2011
Yellow Patches Amanita flavoconia22 June records since 2011
False Caesar's Mushroom Amanita parcivolvata20 June records since 2011- Chicken Of The Woods Laetiporus sulphureus17 June records since 2011
Jellied False Coral Sebacina schweinitzii14 June records since 2011- Crown-Tipped Coral Artomyces pyxidatus12 June records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii12 June records since 2011
Black-Staining Polypore Meripilus sumstinei11 June records since 2011
Usually recorded in July in this state:
- Chicken Of The Woods Laetiporus sulphureus32 July records since 2011
- False Caesar's Mushroom Amanita parcivolvata27 July records since 2011
Blue Lactarius Lactarius indigo25 July records since 2011- Crown-Tipped Coral Artomyces pyxidatus22 July records since 2011
Cinnabar Chanterelle Cantharellus cinnabarinus21 July records since 2011- Gelatinous Stalked Puffball Calostoma cinnabarinum19 July records since 2011
Bradley Lactifluus volemus18 July records since 2011- Yellow Patches Amanita flavoconia18 July records since 2011
Usually recorded in August in this state:
Shaggy-Stalked Bolete Aureoboletus betula58 August records since 2011- Blue Lactarius Lactarius indigo58 August records since 2011
- Gelatinous Stalked Puffball Calostoma cinnabarinum47 August records since 2011
- Cinnabar Chanterelle Cantharellus cinnabarinus43 August records since 2011
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor40 August records since 2011
American Caesar's Mushroom Amanita jacksonii30 August records since 2011- False Caesar's Mushroom Amanita parcivolvata26 August records since 2011
Painted Suillus Suillus spraguei26 August records since 2011
Usually recorded in September in this state:
Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa72 September records since 2011
Suillus hirtellus33 September records since 2011- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor30 September records since 2011
Lentinus levis24 September records since 2011- Shaggy-Stalked Bolete Aureoboletus betula22 September records since 2011
- Painted Suillus Suillus spraguei21 September records since 2011
- Gelatinous Stalked Puffball Calostoma cinnabarinum21 September records since 2011
Amanita amerivirosa20 September records since 2011
Usually recorded in October in this state:
- Suillus hirtellus33 October records since 2011
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor27 October records since 2011
- Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa21 October records since 2011
Bearded Tooth Hericium erinaceus20 October records since 2011
Pear-Shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme20 October records since 2011
Suillus cothurnatus19 October records since 2011
Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina16 October records since 2011- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus16 October records since 2011
Usually recorded in November in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor31 November records since 2011
- Bearded Tooth Hericium erinaceus27 November records since 2011
- Pear-Shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme19 November records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus18 November records since 2011
- Suillus cothurnatus12 November records since 2011
Silver-Blue Milkcap Lactarius paradoxus11 November records since 2011
Aborted Entoloma, Shrimp Of The Woods Entoloma abortivum11 November records since 2011
Dead Man's Hand Scleroderma polyrhizum10 November records since 2011
Usually recorded in December in this state:
- Turkeytail Trametes versicolor32 December records since 2011
- Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum21 December records since 2011
- Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus16 December records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune12 December records since 2011
- Gelatinous Stalked Puffball Calostoma cinnabarinum10 December records since 2011
- Poronidulus conchifer10 December records since 2011
- Birch Mazegill, Gilled Polypore Lenzites betulinus9 December records since 2011
Blushing Bracket Daedaleopsis confragosa9 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, Oct, Jul.
Counties
Counties with fewer than 100 records (67) are listed here without their own page.
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Orange County | 12,273 |
| Macon County | 7,838 |
| Durham County | 4,324 |
| Watauga County | 3,144 |
| Swain County | 3,129 |
| Haywood County | 2,013 |
| Buncombe County | 1,855 |
| Transylvania County | 1,761 |
| Henderson County | 1,040 |
| Wake County | 960 |
| Yancey County | 920 |
| Jackson County | 909 |
| Forsyth County | 584 |
| Chatham County | 496 |
| McDowell County | 444 |
| Montgomery County | 368 |
| Burke County | 330 |
| Mecklenburg County | 304 |
| Avery County | 261 |
| Carteret County | 221 |
| Brunswick County | 193 |
| Guilford County | 152 |
| Caldwell County | 147 |
| Dare County | 138 |
| New Hanover County | 131 |
| Graham County | 129 |
| Mitchell County | 129 |
| Columbus County | 117 |
| Stokes County | 108 |
| Alamance County | 107 |
| Cumberland County | 106 |
| Anson County | 105 |
| Davidson County | 81 |
| Clay County | 78 |
| Polk County | 74 |
| Catawba County | 72 |
| Gaston County | 66 |
| Randolph County | 63 |
| Madison County | 58 |
| Iredell County | 57 |
| Pitt County | 57 |
| Moore County | 55 |
| Cherokee County | 54 |
| Yadkin County | 54 |
| Cabarrus County | 50 |
| Craven County | 45 |
| Harnett County | 45 |
| Surry County | 39 |
| Bladen County | 35 |
| Onslow County | 34 |
| Beaufort County | 29 |
| Richmond County | 28 |
| Rutherford County | 27 |
| Granville County | 26 |
| Nash County | 26 |
| Pender County | 24 |
| Stanly County | 22 |
| Jones County | 22 |
| Ashe County | 21 |
| Johnston County | 20 |
| Alleghany County | 18 |
| Robeson County | 17 |
| Rockingham County | 17 |
| Wilkes County | 16 |
| Scotland County | 15 |
| Halifax County | 14 |
| Gates County | 14 |
| Rowan County | 13 |
| Lincoln County | 11 |
| Lee County | 11 |
| Cleveland County | 11 |
| Northampton County | 10 |
| Union County | 10 |
| Franklin County | 9 |
| Vance County | 9 |
| Wayne County | 8 |
| Davie County | 8 |
| Duplin County | 8 |
| Bertie County | 8 |
| Washington County | 8 |
| Edgecombe County | 7 |
| Alexander County | 6 |
| Currituck County | 6 |
| Tyrrell County | 5 |
| Hertford County | 5 |
| Martin County | 5 |
| Warren County | 4 |
| Sampson County | 3 |
| Hyde County | 3 |
| Hoke County | 3 |
| Wilson County | 2 |
| Camden County | 2 |
| Lenoir County | 2 |
| Caswell County | 2 |
| Chowan County | 2 |
| Pasquotank County | 2 |
| Person County | 2 |
| Greene County | 1 |
| Pamlico County | 1 |
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