Brown hairy mushroom

 I found this mushroom in a weedy cleared space between parking space and picnic benches in the forest, in full sun.

Looks like an Armillaria

Although it looks like one of the honey mushrooms, these grow in clumps. This was almost alone; there was one smaller one a few feet away.

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Encontré este hongo en un espacio abierto hecho para estacionamiento en el bosque, en pleno sol.

Se parece a los hongos de miel, Armillaria sp., aunque ellos acostumbran crecer en grupos, todos saliendo de un solo punto. Este andaba solo, aparte de otro, mas pequeño, también solitario, a la distancia, aproximadamente de un metro.

A multitude of one

Mushrooms grow on soil, on mossy rocks, on fir cones, on old logs. In Cathedral Grove, we passed many growing on tree trunks.

The stalk grows out horizontally, then curves upwards.

All of these (all of the photos) seem to be the same species; creamy gills, white rings, smooth brown, flattish cap.

They grow out of crevices in the old bark.

The stalks on these are much darker, and the caps are freckled.

More freckled caps, growing on a mossy trunk.

Showing off the gills.

In my little guide, Common Mushrooms of the Northwest, I found only one that seems to match; the Honey Mushrooms, Armillaria mellea complex. (12 related species). (Probably Armillaria ostoyae.)

These grow on standing wood, or buried wood near conifers and the mushrooms we see are a small part of the huge hidden body of the fungus; one individual may cover hundreds of acres, spreading from tree to tree. It is possible that all the ones we saw on the walk through Cathedral Grove were outcrops of the same organism.