The bluntly conical or hemispherical caps are variable in colour from dark brown to reddish brown and grey-brown, drying with a darker central zone.  Gills are greyish, maturing to blackish, mottled, and with a white edge.   The stem is dark and powdery, often with droplets in upper part.  Spores are large, black, almost rhomboid in face view.

other Panaeolus

microscopy

Photograph from top down, in side-view and underneath to show gills; note habitat and substrate.  This can be a difficult fungus to identify and we recommend that spores are examined, or that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submission to NatureSpot.

In pasture and grasslands

Found from spring until autumn

Quite common and widespread in Britain.

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.