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It's an Agaricus species. Agaricus are notoriously difficult to identify accurately to species.
It's not active.
It might be edible or poisonous. The easiest way to tell which (without eating it) is to smell it. If there is no obvious odor, try crushing the stem base and smelling there. If it smells unpleasant (metallic, phenol, library paste, chemical), consider it poisonous. If it smells good, it's probably edible. Even with that, it could still upset your stomach.
Good ways to narrow it down to what it *could* be, is rub the stem/cap and check for yellow or red staining, or if it just bruises brown. Shape of cap at button stage can kinda help. I'm a big fan of Agaricus, even if I don't know what it is. I've eaten about 4-5 different species, and only two have given me stomach upsets. They were one of the yellow staining, phenol/chemical smelling ones like A. xanthodermus.
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