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  1. Life
  2. Fungi Including Lichens
  3. Club Fungi
  4. Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies
  5. Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies
  6. Agaricineae
  7. Puffballs

family

Puffballs

Lycoperdaceae

Includes
6 native 26 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Lycoperdon 2 native
  • Calvatia 2 native
  • True Puffballs 1 native
  • Apioperdon 1 native
  • Abstoma
  • Mycenastrum
  • Calbovista
  • Disciseda
  • Bryoperdon
  • Globaria
  • Arachnion
  • Holocotylon

Range

United States

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

Most observed native puffballs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Common Puffball Lycoperdon perlatum 58,372 observations
  • Pear-shaped Puffball Apioperdon pyriforme 54,459 observations
  • Peeling Puffball Lycoperdon marginatum 12,414 observations
  • Purple-spored Puffball Calvatia cyathiformis 12,277 observations
  • Western Giant Puffball Calvatia booniana 5,512 observations
  • Lead-grey Puffball Bovista plumbea 4,899 observations

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