Found on ground near the creek. Red Cap and white stem. Crisp break. Chalk like stem. Smells like pond water to me. Elevation 1,242 meters. Noted species Red Alder (Alnus rubra), Bear Grass (Xerophyllum tenax), Mountain Hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), Black Huckelberry (Vaccinium membranaceaum), and Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum).
Lovely reddish pink mushroom. Younger specimens deeper/darker pink, also darker in the middle. Near shore pine, shore grass, and blackberry.
Cap: red-maroon, convex, depressed in age, margin irregular
Gills: white-light yellow, adnate
Stalk: pink, even-tapered at base
grows scattered
Young specimen-fruiting under Douglas fir. Note the sac-like volva, grey cap, distinct ridged cap margins. Western Grissete(A.pachycholea) tends to be larger, chestnut brown on caps and thicker in over all context compared to this species.