April 3, 2024, Rainy Day Morel Hunting

We thought today would be the day. The ground temperature was perfect ranging from 50 to 55 at various depths. We got a call from a friend who lives by a lake in Arrington Virginia—the next county over—and he’d found buckets of morels. It had been raining for days with a giant storm moving through. We went over to see if we could find any. The water was too high to cross at the bottom of the slope. We didn’t find morels but we had a great walk. The water was really moving through. We’d never seen it so wet. We will go out Friday morning to check again. These were our finds today.

Tricholomopsis rutilans, or common name Plums and Custard, or Red-haired Agaric. Found along south trail.
Pluteus cervinus, in clearing near loblolly pines.
Coprinellus found up top in the clearing in multiple places.
Polystichum acrostichoides, Christmas fern
Erynnis juvenalis

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