Weeping Widow

Weeping Widow - Lacrymaria lacrymabunda

Description

It has a hairy fibrillose cap with a bearded edge.  The cap is yellow-brown in colour, with dark marbled gills with white fringed margins that exude droplets stained black with the spores.    The stem is yellow brown with a ring zone that is often blackened by spores; scaly or hariry below the ring.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note habitat and substrate.

Habitat

Grasslands etc.

When to see it

Most common in late summer and autumn.

UK Status

Widespread and common (Kibby, Vol.3, 2021)

VC55 Status

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

MAP KEY:

Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

UK Map

Additional images

No additional images available for this species.

All NatureSpot records