Another small amatoxin-containing lawn species, easily swept up with harmless brown mushrooms.
Side by side
Conocybe filaris
Pholiotina rugosa
In this game
Poisonous
Poisonous
Habitat
Lawns, wood chip and rich grassy ground.
Lawns, flower beds, wood chip and other rich, disturbed ground.
Season
Summer to autumn.
Spring to autumn.
Spore print
Rust-brown.
Rust-brown.
This comparison cannot make a mushroom safe to eat. It sets out the few characteristics this game records, in general terms, for two species that vary by region, age and growing conditions. Real specimens overlap in ways no table and no photograph can separate, and the deadly one here is deadly in a single meal. Ask a qualified local expert, every time.