By Ladyday9
United States 
can you tell me what this is?
28 Aug, 2011
Answers
Possibly Mutinus caninus
28 Aug, 2011
If its a stinkhorn (Mutinus) rather than Verpa conica (see reply to your second question) it will smell repulsive, so that's an easy way of checking.
28 Aug, 2011
Looks like one of the Stinkhorn fungi
28 Aug, 2011