Mushroom Expert's article on puffballs.
The term "puffball," as I am using it here, is not at all scientific; I mean more or less any mushroom that looks like a ball when mature. Typically the interior of a puffball is composed of spore-producing flesh that turns into spore dust as the mushroom matures. When the puffball matures it splits open, or a perforation develops on surface of the ball, through which the spores escape—when raindrops land on the puffball, via air currents, or by some other means...
Hmmm... Seems very uncertain, lots of specie listed in the full article. I guess I am limited to observation this season and hope they show up again. It appears to me to be
L umbrinum.
iNatralist's source is Wikipedia? Hmmm...