Purpose
The goal of the Nebraska Mushrooms project is to document mushrooms found in Nebraska parks and provide tools to easily search our database. This project is an active work in progress and should in no way be considered a complete perspective of the biodiversity of the state, which is much larger commonly suspected.
The database may be searched from here.
Tags
You can filter the results of the database using tags. Tags are a way of grouping species into different buckets. Such as what season they are found in, what they look like, edibility, toxicity, etc. Tags can be combined to fine tune results.
Tags can take the form of:
For example, if you'd like to see the gilled mushrooms that grow in woodland duff in the spring, you could combine the agaric, substrate-duff, and spring tags.
Season Tags
| Season | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Spring | March 21,22 | June 19, 20 |
| Summer | June 20, 21 | September 21, 22 |
| Fall | September 22, 23 | December 20, 21 |
| Winter | December 21, 22 | March 19, 20 |
Further reading about seasons.
Edibility Tags
Important: Please read the article Concerning Edibility before using this website.
Form Tags
If you're interested in the gilled mushrooms from Indian Cave State Park, simply select the agaric tag. More details about forms in the Key. Keep in mind that a single mushroom might represent multiple forms.
- Agaric
- Bolete
- Disc
- Chantrelle
- Polypore
- Conk
- Shelf
- Crust
- Coral
- Club
- Toothed
- Nest
- Sequestrate
- Lichen
- Slime Mold
- Rust
- Jelly
- Stinkhorn
Substrate Tags
Substrate is the fungi's preferred growing medium, food, or what they may commonly be found in.