You're offline — showing cached data

Loading conditions…

NE Indiana Foraging Conditions — ForageIQ

🚗 Get Directions

NE Indiana

750–1,100 ft · IN🚗 Directions

S

Northeast Indiana flat terrain with scattered woodlots of elm, ash, and old apple orchards. Later season than southern IN due to latitude. Maumee River corridor and state forests provide best access to morel habitat.

Trees:American Elm White Ash White Oak

Updated Jul 13, 4:07 AM MT

AI Conditions Report

AI-generated · verify in field

# NE Indiana – July 13, 2026 | Tier S You're sitting in a perfect July sweet spot: soil at 75°F sustained for a week solid, volumetric water content holding steady at 0.28–0.29, and just under 2" accumulated over two weeks with zero drought stress. That's why the tier holds—every viable species on the roster has what it needs. The roster itself is massive because mid-summer heat + decent moisture = unrestricted flush conditions across both woody decomposers (turkey tail, artist's conk, all the polypores) and ground-fruiting generalists (parasols, horse mushrooms, russulas, the inky caps). The only asterisk is *moderate desiccation risk*—watch the next 48–72 hours. If temps spike without rain, soil moisture will evaporate faster than you'd expect at this elevation, and ground-fruiting species (especially the delicate ones like fairy ring champignon and mica caps) will abort. The polypores and wood-decayers stay viable longer. Chicken of the Woods and black trumpets are your anchor targets—they're reliable at this soil temp and won't collapse if conditions tighten slightly. Focus woody habitat (dead oaks, aspen deadfall) and hardwood litter first. **Hot tip:** Hit low-lying ditches and seepage zones this morning before desiccation deepens; they'll hold moisture 12–18 hours longer than slopes.

Generated by Claude (Anthropic) from the structured weather, soil, and phenology data on this page. The LLM can misread edge cases — treat this as a starting hypothesis, not a guarantee. Always verify conditions on the ground before committing to a long drive.

Foraging Potential95/100

✅Moisture

✅Soil Temp

✅No Freeze

✅No Drought

Precip 7d

Found something?

Log your find on iNaturalist to help the community and get expert ID assistance. Photos, location, and habitat notes all help with identification.

Log on iNaturalist View recent finds nearby →

Nearby Camping

Within(0)

No campgrounds within 10 mi. Try widening the radius.

⚠ Road Access Notice

Always verify road access is public before following GPS directions to mountain areas. Many forest roads are seasonal, gated, or require 4WD. Dispersed camping follows USFS/BLM rules (typically 14-day limit). Check ranger district offices for current road and campground conditions.

Viable Species

Confidence × Primordia state

HIGHPrimed

Chicken of the Woods

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Black Trumpet

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Destroying Angel

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wine Cap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Giant Puffball

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Witch's Butter

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Aspen Bolete

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Indigo Milk Cap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Crown-Tipped Coral

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Jelly Ear

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dead Man's Fingers

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Parasol Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Shaggy Parasol

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Ring Champignon

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Artist's Conk

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Birch Polypore

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Tinder Fungus

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Bird's Nest Fungus

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Cinnabar Chanterelle

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Berkeley's Polypore

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Red-Capped Scaber Stalk

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Old Man of the Woods

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Frost's Bolete

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Horse Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mica Cap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Two-Colored Bolete

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Smooth Chanterelle

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Blusher

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Caesar's Amanita

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Weeping Milk Cap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Gem-Studded Puffball

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Green-Gill Lepiota

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Yellow Patches

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Cordyceps

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Bitter Bolete

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Green Cracked Russula

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Blackening Russula

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Peppery Milk Cap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Grisette

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Coker's Amanita

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fool's Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Alcohol Inky

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Inkcap

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Yellow-Stainer

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Red-Belted Conk

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mossy Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

False Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Northern Tooth

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Eyelash Cup

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Snow Fungus

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wood Ear

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Crested Coral

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Green Elfcup

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Ivory Funnel

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Aspen Oyster

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wolf's Milk Slime

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dog Vomit Slime Mold

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fluted Bird's Nest

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

King Alfred's Cakes

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dung Bird's Nest

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Parasite Bolete

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Rooted Collybia

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

The Deceiver

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Oak Mazegill

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Banded Mottlegill

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Common Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Ravenel's Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dune Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Elegant Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 75°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.28 VWC, 7d avg 0.29 — moisture sustained)

Primordia readiness: Cold = mycelium dormant. Activating = soil warming, primordia building. Primed = 5+ sustained warm days at species threshold; fruiting imminent if moisture cooperates. Based on Schmidt 1983 / Mihail 2007.