Mushrooms: North America

by Kent McKnight, Vera McKnight, Kent H. McKnight

Over 500 species are described and illustrated in this authoritative guide to mycology that uses the famous Peterson Identification System and contains recipes for delicious wild mushroom dishes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395421012
• ISBN13: 9780395421017
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.8" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

mushrooms fieldguide

i used this book so far only in the fall. it was really good and helped me identify several different types. most were poisonous. this can be expected in the area and season i searched. i look forward to searching more in the spring. a great fieldguide with color illustrations.

If you are beginning, start with this one.

We own several different guides. Each has it's own strength. I recommend this as the first guide for those beginning to identify MR/Fungi. It covers most of the basic MR/Fungi family, but is not encylopedic as Arora's 'Mushrooms Demystified' attempts to be, nor does it have the number of color photographs that either the Falcon Guide 'North American Mushrooms' or Audubon's Field Guide. But it's one of the easiest to use beginning with 48 (mostly color) plates, then branching off into related species.

2nd best mushroom book

The pictures in this guide are not quite as nice as in the audubon version but is still easy to use and a nice handy size for carrying in a pocket

mushroom field guide

I found this book to be well illustrated. And although not as comprehensive as i'd hoped, it is still the most complete guide I have found. Overall, I feel it is well above average--and I'm quite hard to please!