It is a fairly common fungus, both in North America and Europe, found growing among short green grass.

[8] Very easily missed due to their very small size, C. apala fruit bodies are otherwise quite easy to identify.

The cap has a pale cream to silvery-white colour and may sometimes have a darker yellow to brown coloration towards the central umbo.

Its trademark hood-shaped conical cap expands with age and may flatten out, the surface being marked by minute radiating ridges.

The stem is cap-coloured, elongated, thin, hollow and more or less equal along its length with a height up to 11 cm and diameter of 1–3 mm.

[9] Conocybe apala is a saprobe found in areas with rich soil and short grass such as pastures, playing fields, lawns, meadows as well as rotting manured straw, fruiting single or sparingly few ephemeral bodies.