Agrocybe pediades

Common fieldcap

A small yellowish-brown fieldcap of lawns and grassland, also found on horse-manure mulch. It fruits year-round somewhere in North America and in spring to autumn in Europe. It is technically edible but easily confused with toxic little brown mushrooms.

Agrocybe pediades — Photo: James K. Lindsey, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Full sunDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest period

Where it grows wild

It grows on lawns and other grassland, and on mulch with horse manure.

Recorded from 5 to 2,045 m, median 475 m.

North AmericaEurope

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.