Some of these little mushrooms do indeed look like spears, although many have wiggly stems uncharacteristic of spear shafts. The specific epitet semilanceata comes from semi- meaning 'half'and - lanceata which means 'spear-shaped'. Psilocybe, the genus name, means 'smooth head' - a reference to the silkily mooth, scaleless surface of caps of these grassland mushrooms. Distributionįairly frequent in Britain and Ireland, where it is rather localised, Psilocybe semilanceata occurs throughout Europe and is found also in North America. It is most commonly found on pasture and parkland that has not been enriched with artificial fertiliser. Psilocybe semilanceata, commonly known in the UK as the Magic Mushroom, and in the USA as Liberty Cap, appears in grassland in autumn. Phylum: Basidiomycota - Class: Agaricomycetes - Order: Agaricales - Family: StrophariaceaeÄistribution - Etymology - Taxonomic History - Psychoactivity - Identification - Reference Sources
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