Usually fruits just before the apple trees come to full bloom. Color varies from light cream to yellowish-brown. Similar in appearance to morchella esculenta. Cap is detached from the stalk about half way down. Fruits 10 to 15 days after the Verpa Bohemica.
Color varies from grey in young specimens to almost black in older ones.
Hollow cap attached to stalk at lower edge. Fruits in early to mid-May under aspen, birch and balsam fir, occasionally under maple and red pine. Edible and considered choice. Hollow cap attached to stalk at base. Fruits in middle or latter half of May.