From 9.29.26-10.5.26 my father, sister and I drove from Chicago, IL to Las Vegas, NM and back. This is part of Day 7.
See all of the New Mexico trip posts at New Mexico 2026.
Note: while the title of this post says that these mushrooms are growing on the ground, some or all of them may be growing from roots buried in the ground. Also, the mushroom is merely the spore-spreading organ of a smal fraction of fungi. The main body is the rootlike mycelium underground
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| Unidentified mushroom |
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| Cool gills |
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| Cool cap |
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| Two cool caps |
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| Many cool caps |
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| Mushrooms growing in very compacted, clayey soil |
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| Hardy |
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| Resilent |
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| Powerful |
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| Perseverant |
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| A pioneer species (formal term for species that actively grow in heavily disturbed habitats) |
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| Mushroom x meadow plant team up |
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| Mushroom and cute lil' nubbins of Silvery Bryum moss |
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| Mushroom |
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| Mushroom |
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| Mushroom in the far less harsh habitat of shed Ponderosa Pine needles |
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| Reddish |
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| Woah!!!! Torn up edges of a inkcap |
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| Another reddish mushroom |
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| Bell-shaped |
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| Deathcap relative? |
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| Teeny |
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| Fan-shaped |
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| I do not know if this mushroom is growing from the ground or the little stick |
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