Field Blewit / Blue-leg

Lepista saeva

Grassy forests, meadows, forest edges. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, large. Cap 5-10 (15) cm across, irregularly flattened, matt, greyish-brownish, brownish, fleshy. Gills crowded, broad, pale grey, adnate. Stem 3-8 (10)x1-3 cm, firm, fibrous, pale violet, bluish, greyish-bluish, firmly attached to the substrate. Flesh thick, white, whitish, with an unpleasant taste and smell. Characteristic features: a mushroom of open, grassy scrub and pastures; spores spiny. Grows in summer and autumn, singly or in groups. Edible, a valuable mushroom. Protected.