I grew up in Western North Carolina seeing plenty of mushrooms around the yard, picked them to be umbrellas for my dolls, and peeked under a few, hoping to find a garden fairy. I haven't seen many ...

The mushrooms are probably one of the many kinds of harmless fungi that live in organic matter within or underneath the lawn.

Rainy weather can cause mushrooms to sprout in lawns and mulch. “That’s fine,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “What’s not fine is when you see ...