Leccinum holopus Smith & Thiers var. americanum Cap 5-12cm across, broadly convex; white then soon pallid buff to olivaceous or pinkish buff at disc, sometimes more greenish; glabrous, dry, then slightly viscid with age. Tubes deeply depressed around stem; white then brownish. Pores small; white staining yellowish when bruised. Stem 60-120 x 10-15mm, long, cylindric; pallid, whitish below a darker blackish-brown ornamentation of fine dots and squamules, slowly staining reddish to gray. Flesh firm and white when young, soon soft and cut surface staining reddish with grayish streaks. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores subfusiform, 14-19 x 5-6µ. Deposit cinnamon brown. Habitat in wet, mossy bogs. Common. Found widespread in northeastern North America. Season August-October. Edible. Comment This variant differs from the typical form of Leccinum holopus in the cut flesh staining clearly pinkish.