Yellow Morel

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Yellow Morel is a common, easily recognized mushroom. Morels are one of the “Foolproof Four”, the four most easily identified mushrooms.

It is found growing alone, scattered, or clustered on the ground under hardwoods, often poking through leaf litter.

The cap is hollow; usually egg-shaped with a blunt, cone-shaped tip; 1¼″ to 4¼″ long; and ¾″ to 2⅜″wide. Sometimes it is round, cone-shaped, or irregular in shape. It is deeply pitted with irregularly shaped and randomly oriented pits. The edges of the pits are broadly angled, not sharp. The overall color of the cap is yellowish-brown. When young the cap is shallowly pitted, the ridges are yellow or whitish, and the pits are grayish-brown or dark brown. When mature the cap is deeply pitted and the ridges are the same color or slightly paler than the pits. The ridges do not darken or turn black with age. The margin of the cap is attached directly to the stalk but it is often creased at that point and may appear unattached.

The stalk is usually ⅜″to 2″ long, and ⅜″to 1″thick, usually shorter than the cap. In favorable conditions it may get much longer with age. It is hollow; whitish, pale yellowish-brown, or tan; and usually granular.

A wide variety of habitats, but especially in deciduous forests under a hardwood tree.

May

Sources

4, 7, 24, 26, 29, 30.

Common

This species was formerly knows as Morchella esculenta, a species common in both Europe and the United States. Recent extensive sampling showed the species to be endemic to Europe and the name could not be applied to North American morels. A taxonomic revision of Morchella published in 2017 renamed the North American morels previously known as M. esculenta as M. esculentoides.

Location: Pennington Co Minnesota

I just check this area yesterday and not a sign.  Today, a couple of Morels freshly popping up.

Yes, that is Poison Ivy