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Non-inky Coprinus
Scientific Name: Coprinus disseminatus
Family Name: Coprinaceae
Edibility: Edible
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Description: Small, brownish-gray, bell-shaped, grooved cap on thin stalk. Cap: 1/4 - 5/8 inch (0.5-1.5 cm) wide; bell-shaped to convex; deeply pleated, minutely scruffy; buff to honey-brown over center, becoming grayish toward margin. Gills: attached, nearly distant, broad; white, becoming ashy to black, not inky. Stalk: 3/4 - 1-1/4 inches (2-3 cm) long, 1/64 - 1/32 inch (0.5-1 mm) thick; smooth to minutely hairy, fragile; white; hollow. Spores: 7-10- X 4-5 microns; elliptical, smooth, with pore at tip. Spore print blackish. Edibility: Edible. Season: May-October; November-March in Southern California. Habitat: In great numbers, on deciduous wood debris, often in lawns and grassy areas. Range: Widespread in Eastern North America. Comments: Also known as "Little Helmets." This delicate little mushroom always appears in masses on buried wood, on lawns, or in grassy areas. It has also been called a Psathyrella and a Pseudocoprinus. [Lincoff, Gary H., The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981]