Mushroom Map helps you find mushrooms faster by using data to look in the right places at the right times.

It's a more reliable strategy than:

🤔 vague handbooks (season: spring)

🌀 aimless wandering

🤫 asking around for secret spots

Like any forecast, it's not perfect.

But we're confident it's the best starting point if you don't already know a spot or have a sixth sense for timing.

First, we link thousands of past morel sightings to habitat data (e.g. climate, soil & tree species) and weather data from the weeks before.

Then, we use statistical models to find patterns in how habitat and weather affect where and when morels are likely to grow.

Finally, we use these models to forecast the likelihood of finding morels wherever you are!

We'd like to thank everyone behind the datasets that make this possible:

Occurrences

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Weather

Historical: ERA5 by ECMWF

Forecast: GFS by NOAA

Climate

BIOCLIM+ by CHELSA

Elevation

GLO-90 by Copernicus

Land cover

WorldCover by European Space Agency

Tree species

Tree species maps by USFS

Soil properties

SoilGrids by ISRIC

• Acidity (pH)
• Nitrogen content
• Organic carbon content
• Clay, silt and sand content
• Bulk density
• Coarse fragments
• Cation exchange capacity