Peterson Field Guide To Mushrooms Of North America, Second Edition

A new edition of the classic and best-selling Peterson Field Guides manual on mushrooms.

The Peterson Field Guide To Mushrooms is a portable-sized field guide for mushroom identification: the definitive and most complete mushroom manual available.

Mushrooms, truffles, boletes, morels, witch’s butter, conks, corals, puffballs, and earthstars: fungi are both mysterious and ecologically essential. They can also be delicious or deadly. Thousands of different species of mushrooms appear across North America in forests, backyards, and in unexpected corners. Learning to tell them apart is a rewarding challenge for any naturalist or chef. Covering most of the common edible and poisonous species that readers are likely to encounter, this portable field guide takes a new simple approach to mushroom identification based on key features that don’t require a microscope or technical vocabulary. In addition to the original edition's watercolors, hundreds of new illustrations have been added.

For over 85 years, Peterson field guides have set the standard by which other field guides are measured. Exhaustive and authoritative, they are essential additions to any naturalist's shelf or backpack.