If there is dead or sickly-looking grass near the fairy ring or mushrooms, the fungus may have grown too dense.

Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil.

Mushrooms are the fleshy, spore-bearing body of fungi that few people want growing on their lawns, mostly for aesthetic reasons. Alien-looking mushroom caps popping up sporadically through grass ...