Cap: 3-13 mm broad, obtusely conic and distinctly striate, umbonate, hygrophanous. Color, ocherous tawny to tawny cinnamon fading to pinkish buff of dingy tan when drying. Flesh watery white.

Gills: Ocherous buff in early stage becoming brownish to cinnamon rust. Adnate, soon seceding, subdistance to crowded, narrow to moderately broad. Edges the sae color but whitish.

Stem: 10-70 long, 0.75-1.0 mm thick, slightly swollen at base, up to 1.5 mm wide, becoming glabrous at the base, pure white, thin water and pallid. Based is tinged with heavenly blue tone. Veil lacking.

Spores: 6.5-9.5 X 4.4-5.1 (-5.8). Ellipsoidal, thick-walled with a small germ pore.

Sporeprint: Rusty-brown sporeprint.

Habitat: Conocybe smithii grows scattered and is found in various habitats including swampy areas, in sphagum moss and moist soil along streams and river banks, somnetimes where sheep graze and in lawns at times.

Distribution:Widely distributed in Western North America and Western Canada and in some European Ccountries.

Season: It fruits in the late spring, summer and perhaps the early fall.

Dosage:40 to 60 fresh specimens weighing approz. 1/3 to 1/2 fresh ounce of material.

Comment: Very macroscopically similar to Conocybe cyanopus.