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Conocybe lactea
This species is only a few centimetres across at best. The cap is cone-shaped, whitish to cream or pale tan. The gills are whitish at first but turn reddish brown as the spores mature. Dunce cap is quite common in grassy spots in around the Great Lakes. It is one of the first mushrooms of the season and fruits solitary or in scattered groups in early summer.
Grows in lawns
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We have these here in WV, USA. Have recently began a little foraging, cautiously, gradually. Hired out a book from library, _Mushrooms of West Virginia & the Central Appalachins_ by one William C. Roody. This book suggests these are *_inedible_* mushrooms, no qualifiers they are poisonous, merely inedible.
Nice one,