Wild Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

This guide covers a number of edible mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Do not collect where prohibited.

This guide focuses on wild edible mushrooms that are suitable for the novice mushroom enthusiast, since they either have no poisonous look-alikes or can be differentated from look-alikes by verifying all the key characteristics listed for the mushroom. As a safety precaution, only consume small quantities when trying a mushroom for the first time, and always cook mushrooms thoroughly.

Warning: do not attempt to identify a mushroom by matching the pictures alone; compare all the listed characteristics. Never experiment with a mushroom that you cannot positively identify, that is over-ripe, damaged, or collected from contaminated areas. Consuming poisonous mushrooms can kill you.

1. apricot jelly mushroom
2. bear's head tooth mushroom
3. black morel
4. blue chanterelle
5. cauliflower mushroom
6. chicken of the woods
7. comb tooth mushroom
8. common puffball
9. fairy ring mushroom
10. golden chanterelle
11. hedgehog mushroom
12. hexagonal-pored polypore
13. horn of plenty (aka black chanterelle, black trumpet)
14. horse mushroom
15. ink cap
16. jelly ear (aka wood ear)
17. king bolete (aka cepe)
18. larch bolete
19. lion's mane
20. lobster mushroom
21. meadow mushroom
22. mica cap
23. oyster mushroom
24. red cracked bolete
25. rosy gomphidius
26. saffron milk cap
27. scaly hedgehog
28. shaggy mane
29. slimy spike cap
30. western giant puffball
31. yellow swamp russula
32. yellow-gilled russula