Illinois Ivory Funnel Habitat Guide

Ivory Funnel (Clitocybe dealbata) is a realistic state-level profile for Illinois, where foragers look for it in lawns, park turf, and grassy edges in cool wet weather tied to elm bottoms, oak woods, and old pasture edges. This page narrows the North American pattern to local terrain and seasonality instead of relying on generic continent-wide copy. ring-forming white lawn mushrooms demand spore-print discipline. It is best treated as a poisonous species that should never be collected for food. Toxicity planning matters because contains muscarine and should never be confused with edible fairy ring mushrooms.