whats growing in my lawn? ID please
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A wild guess would be Fairy Ring Champignon, but I'm no expert, so could be anything.
Marasmius oreades (Blot. ex Fr.) Fr. Fairy Ring Mushrooms, Nelkenschwindling Nymphe des montagnes, Faux Mousseron, Marasme des Oréades Fairy Ring Champignon Fairy Ring Mushroom. Cap 25cm across, convex then flattened with a large broad umbo, tan when moist drying buff tinged with tan at the centre. Stem 20100 x 35mm, whitish to pale buff, tough, rigid. Flesh thick at the centre of the cap, whitish. Smell of fresh sawdust. Gills white then ochre-cream, distant. Spore print white. Spores pip-shaped, 810 x 56um. Cuticular cells smooth, subglobose. Habitat often forming rings in the short grass of pasture or lawns. Season late spring to late autumn. Common. Edible and good. Distribution, America and Europe (From Rogers Mushrooms).
Marasmius oreades (Blot. ex Fr.) Fr. Fairy Ring Mushrooms, Nelkenschwindling Nymphe des montagnes, Faux Mousseron, Marasme des Oréades Fairy Ring Champignon Fairy Ring Mushroom. Cap 25cm across, convex then flattened with a large broad umbo, tan when moist drying buff tinged with tan at the centre. Stem 20100 x 35mm, whitish to pale buff, tough, rigid. Flesh thick at the centre of the cap, whitish. Smell of fresh sawdust. Gills white then ochre-cream, distant. Spore print white. Spores pip-shaped, 810 x 56um. Cuticular cells smooth, subglobose. Habitat often forming rings in the short grass of pasture or lawns. Season late spring to late autumn. Common. Edible and good. Distribution, America and Europe (From Rogers Mushrooms).
They're LBMs - Little Brown Mushrooms. 
Could be any one of god-knows-how-many species, all difficult to identify and mostly uninteresting. Could be Fairy Ring Champignon, but they don't look quite right and I certainly wouldn't bet on it based on just a photo.
Could be any one of god-knows-how-many species, all difficult to identify and mostly uninteresting. Could be Fairy Ring Champignon, but they don't look quite right and I certainly wouldn't bet on it based on just a photo.
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
They are panaeolus rickenii.
They are completely different from fairy ring champignon in variety of ways. The mottle gills (panaeolus) have dark gills with white mottling on them, some bruise purple. Most are small brown mushrooms with hair thin stems. Accidentally consuming some members of this group instead of edible mushrooms could lead to frightening psychiatric symptoms for 6-12 hours. Some other types little brown mushrooms are highly toxic (Organ failure not hallucinogenic), and can kill if taken in great number.
They are completely different from fairy ring champignon in variety of ways. The mottle gills (panaeolus) have dark gills with white mottling on them, some bruise purple. Most are small brown mushrooms with hair thin stems. Accidentally consuming some members of this group instead of edible mushrooms could lead to frightening psychiatric symptoms for 6-12 hours. Some other types little brown mushrooms are highly toxic (Organ failure not hallucinogenic), and can kill if taken in great number.
I think there's some poa annua in there as well and I can clearly see some clover as well. Looks like the lawn needs a damn good scarification as well to get some of the thatch out
plus a bit of Creeping Red Fescue.
Does need scarification - it needs half a dozen or so Guinea Pigs. They'll soon weed and feed it.
for a positive id.. can you check it has a "skirt" around the mid of it.. (or it that's fallen off.. look for a faint ring) also, while wearing gloves carefully pick one up and turn it upside down.. then remove the stalk and lay the head on a plate of glass.. (gills down) leave it there over night and in the morning you will have a spore print.. lay the glass over a black bit of paper and a White piece so you can get a definate colour of the spores.. and you can see the print properly.. if you can get me a picture of that I may be able to help you better (well I'll be able to pass the info onto a friend 
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Edit: Ohh do you have any trees or bushes near to them?? if so what are they? it all makes a diffrence..
)Edit: Ohh do you have any trees or bushes near to them?? if so what are they? it all makes a diffrence..
The infamous 'magic mushroom' of days gone by.
I've seen the results..scary..(i.e. i've dealt with 'victims').
Okay, I should have looked closer.
Were you very very drunk at the time
... No I thought the same although I was,, very very drunk at the time
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Ok a rough guide to little brown mushrooms; anything growing in grass that has a head smaller than your finger is generally not edible, so just ignore them.
Brown gills are more often than not conocybes, some of these are deadly poisonious.
Mottle gills have dark gills with white dots on them, the one in the picture is one of these. There are also psilocybes that look very simerlar. Both have purply black spore prints, and are very hard to tell apart from each other. There are several species of both families that are hallucengenic not just liberty caps. You can not be poisoned by these by just handling them, but don't get them into fresh deep cut. A child playing on a lawn is unlikely to be poisoned by them either as swallowing any of these types of fungi produces a gagging response, but there are recorded cases of children eating these.
If a mushroom is tiny and white it's proberly a mycena, none of these are edible
It the fungi is very brightly coloured is proberly a wax cap,some of these can be eaten but they are tasteless and covered in mucus. (ie ok in survival sitution when picking your nose has run out)
I hope that explains most of the relevent information of LBMs so can we shut up now.
Brown gills are more often than not conocybes, some of these are deadly poisonious.
Mottle gills have dark gills with white dots on them, the one in the picture is one of these. There are also psilocybes that look very simerlar. Both have purply black spore prints, and are very hard to tell apart from each other. There are several species of both families that are hallucengenic not just liberty caps. You can not be poisoned by these by just handling them, but don't get them into fresh deep cut. A child playing on a lawn is unlikely to be poisoned by them either as swallowing any of these types of fungi produces a gagging response, but there are recorded cases of children eating these.
If a mushroom is tiny and white it's proberly a mycena, none of these are edible
It the fungi is very brightly coloured is proberly a wax cap,some of these can be eaten but they are tasteless and covered in mucus. (ie ok in survival sitution when picking your nose has run out)
I hope that explains most of the relevent information of LBMs so can we shut up now.
