Forage regions

Temperate rainforest. The global classroom for chanterelles, pine mushrooms, and winter yellowfeet. First fall rains flip the switch.

First flush Sep 8·Last flush Feb 20

Burn morels after wildfire years, then a short intense fall in the wet belt. Elevation is everything — follow snow up, rain down.

First flush Apr 25·Last flush Oct 25

Oregon and Washington are the commercial wild-mushroom engine of North America. Two seasons: spring morels, fall everything else.

First flush Apr 1·Last flush Feb 15

A winter foraging state. Coastal oaks give black trumpets and candy caps; the Sierra gives spring morels. Death caps are common in cities — study them.

First flush Nov 1·Last flush May 20

High, late, and fire-driven. Morels are the main commercial story. Short summer kings at elevation.

First flush May 10·Last flush Sep 20

Morel culture is a civic religion. Then summer chickens, fall hens, and giant puffballs in farm country.

First flush Mar 25·Last flush Oct 20

Oldest mushroom clubs in the US. Hens, lions, black trumpets, and a serious Amanita load. Fall is the season.

First flush Apr 15·Last flush Nov 5

Long season, high diversity, high snake-and-tick load. Chanterelles in summer heat. Lions and chickens love southern oaks.

First flush Apr 10·Last flush Dec 1

Monsoon mycology. Morels (gucchi) are a high-value Himalayan cash crop. Also porcini-like boletes, ganoderma, and a deep village knowledge that outsiders should not steamroll.

First flush Mar 1·Last flush Oct 15

Termitomyces (termite mushrooms) after the first monsoon, plus paddy-straw cousins and a huge medicinal polypore flora. This is not a chanterelle forest — learn the local genera.

First flush Jun 5·Last flush Oct 10

One of Europe's great mycophilic cultures. White mushrooms (borovyk), ryzhyky, and chanterelles fill village markets. Know current access and safety notices before you travel.

First flush May 20·Last flush Nov 5

Sandy pine, birch, and wetland edges. Milkcaps, birch boletes, morels in spring, chaga on birch. Some districts still carry Chernobyl-era radiation maps — use official forage advisories.

First flush Apr 10·Last flush Oct 20

September–October is the national mushroom month. Strong club culture, strict site ethics (no rakes, 1.5 kg personal guidance in many woods), and a death-cap problem in urban parks.

First flush Aug 20·Last flush Nov 20