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Lead-grey Puffball

Bovista plumbea

Field notes

Bovista plumbea, commonly known as the tumbling puffball, tumbleball, or paltry puffball, is a small puffball mushroom. It is white when young and greyish in age. Easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha, it is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium. It is commonly found in Western Europe and California.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided