Appalachian Mushrooms: A Field Guide

Walter E Sturgeon is one of the Appalachian region's foremost mushroom hunters. And in this book, he brings us a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi of the Appalachian Mountains from Canada to Georgia. Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology, and detailed diagnostic features of the disparate forms they take throughout their life cycles are all included, enabling the reader to identify species without the use of a microscope or chemicals.
Appalachian Mushrooms is unparalleled in its accuracy and currency, from its detailed photographs to descriptions based on the most advanced classification information available, including recent DNA studies that have upended some mushrooms' previously accepted taxonomies. Sturgeon celebrates more than 400 species in all their diversity, beauty, and scientific interest.