Begin to Identify Mushrooms with this Great Visual Guide for the Upper Midwest! The Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides)is a must for foragers and mycologists alike. Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastime—and it’s one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand.
The region-specific book is in user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. Learn about nearly 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- Features
- 400 of the Upper Midwest’s most common and important mushrooms to know
- Identify mushrooms by appearance with photographs and essential details, and begin to learn which are edible and which are toxic
- Use this book with confidence. Teresa Marrone has been foraging for over 30 years. Kathy Yerich is on the board of the Minnesota Mycological Society
- Organized by mushroom shape
- Specifications
- Title: Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides)
- Publisher: Adventure Publications
- Publication Date: February 25, 2020
- Language: English
- ISBN 10: 1591939607
- ISBN 13: 978-1591939603
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 2nd
- Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.5 x 6 in
- Pages: 304 pages
Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for 30 years and writing about them for 25 years. She is the author of more than a dozen outdoors-themed books, including the Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide series (currently available for four regions of the U.S.) and numerous cookbooks featuring wild foods.
A born forager, Kathy Yerich has been intimately involved with mushroom foraging for over 10 years. A proud member of the Minnesota Mycological Society and the North American Mycological Association, she has traveled the country in search of fungi. She has recently started seeing a new side of mushrooms with the discovery of macro lenses.