Found near Yellowknife · September
What people actually find here
121 species have been recorded within about 40 km of here in September, from verified public observations. These are the ones we have written up, ordered by how often they turn up.
Dangerous look-alikeJuniper berries14 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeYarrow7 records within 40 km this month
Broadleaf plantain1 record within 40 km this month
Also out there, that we haven't written up yet
Recorded near you this month. We have no identification guidance for these, so treat them as a list of things to go and learn — from a regional key or someone who knows them — not as a list of things to pick.
Fungi
Shaggy Mane
Coprinus comatus
17 records nearby
Crinkled Snow Lichen
Flavocetraria nivalis
7 records nearby
False Chanterelle
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
5 records nearby
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Plants
Lingonberry
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
16 records nearby
bearberry
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
13 records nearby
Prickly Saxifrage
Saxifraga tricuspidata
11 records nearby
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Photographs and records from iNaturalist, used under their open licences and credited to their photographers.
Your woods
What's growing around Yellowknife
The commonest trees recorded nearby, most often seen first. Most of the good mushrooms are tied to a particular tree, so this is the first thing to know about a wood.
- poplar and aspen
- alder
- pine
- larch
- birch
- spruce
Know these first
What can hurt you around Yellowknife in September
4 species on our hazard list have been recorded near here this month, 2 of which can kill a healthy adult. Learn these before you learn anything you intend to eat.
- Can kill1 record nearby
Brown roll-rim
Paxillus involutus
- Mistaken for
- Assorted brown gilled mushrooms; it was eaten as an edible in Europe for generations.
- How to tell
- Inrolled felty cap margin, gills that bruise dark brown and can be rubbed off the cap, growing under birch.
- What it does
- Sensitises the immune system over repeated meals, then one day triggers it to destroy the eater's own red blood cells. People have died after eating it safely for years.
- Can kill1 record nearby
Deadly galerina
Galerina marginata
- Mistaken for
- Honey mushrooms, velvet shank, and sheathed woodtuft — all wood-growing clusters picked in autumn.
- How to tell
- Small brown cap on dead conifer wood, a ring on the stem, and a rusty-brown spore print. Honey mushroom drops a white print. Take a print before you cook anything you gathered off a log.
- What it does
- Carries the same amatoxins as the death cap in a far smaller body. A handful is enough.
- Hospital4 records nearby
Fly agaric
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What to start watching for
Coming into season in the next month or two near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Seasons shift a week or two with the weather, so treat these as things to keep an eye on rather than dates.
