Yellowfoot, or winter chanterelles, carry on after the golden chanterelles stop: October into January on the coast, in wet hemlock and cedar forest with deep moss and rotting wood.
October to January on the coast, peaking in November and December. September to November in the interior wet belt, peaking in October.
Wet coastal and interior hemlock and cedar forest below about 1,000 m, with western hemlock, amabilis fir or redcedar in the stand. Deep moss, rotting logs, often in big groups.
The wetter chanterelle stands: coastal and interior cedar–hemlock forest zones with hemlock, amabilis fir or redcedar, below 1,000 m.
Pick your town. These are the yellowfoot spots Pickable has mapped within about three hours. The app calls each one for this week.
Get told when they turn Go.
Get told when they turn GoCounts are habitat, not a promise of mushrooms. Parks, reserves and land that's mostly off-limits aren't counted. Drive times are estimates.
Pickable doesn't identify mushrooms. Yellowfoot have a brown cap, blunt forked ridges instead of gills, and a hollow yellow-orange stem. Small brown gilled mushrooms grow in the same moss, and some are deadly (Galerina). Check for ridges and a hollow stem on every one. Never eat a wild mushroom on an app's or a photo's say-so. If someone may have eaten a poisonous mushroom, call BC Drug and Poison Information Centre at 1-800-567-8911, or 911.
Most BC Crown land is open to picking for your own use without a permit. Parks, ecological reserves, reserve land and conservation lands aren't, and private land needs permission. Pickable flags each one on the area's Can I go? card. See Data sources for the official sources.
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