Puffball-like mushrooms with an outer covering that splits into star-like segments. (Wikipedia)
3/26/2025 Found on a sandy bluff prairie hillside. Spore sac is 2 1/2 CM wide; diameter across the rays is 5cm not counting the ends of the curled rays.
3/26/2025
3/26/2025
3/26/2025
4/25/2009
4/25/2009 This one has lost its spore sac.