Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)
I once heard a joke about this mushroom: "A very bad song by Madonna is improved immeasurably if you walk through the woods singing:'Lycoperdon, puffed for the very first time . . .'" I found this beauty growing in the forest just outside of Buckley, Washington.
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