Q: A circle of mushrooms suddenly appeared in my lawn, which has never happened before. The mushrooms are about six inches tall and almost orange in color. How do I get rid of them, and are they harming the grass? A: Your lawn has a fairy ring, also known as an elf ring or pixie ring. It was once believed that one of these creatures danced in a circle and thereby created this ring in the grass or in the woods. There is a lot of folklore related to these rings. They are caused by underground fungi growing in the top few inches of soil in woodlands or grasslands. Usually, they are first noticed when mushrooms sprout up all around the circle. There are around 60 species of mushrooms that grow in this fairy ring pattern. They start out in one spot, sometimes where a tree died and the fungus …