fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores

California false morel, Gyromitra californica - a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California

Gyromitra sphaerospora, round-spored gyromitra - a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains

beefsteak morel, brain mushroom, Gyromitra esculenta - a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown

Gyromitra infula, saddled-shaped false morel - a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even

Gyromitra gigas - a gyromitra with a large irregular stalk and fertile part that is yellow to brown and wrinkled; has early fruiting time