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Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.
菇 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (plant) carries the meaning, while 姑 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 8 more strokes
gū菇

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Open the tool →菇 (gū) means “Mushroom” in Chinese.
菇 is pronounced gū in Mandarin Chinese.
菇 has 11 strokes.
菇 is written in 11 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 菇 is 艹, and 菇 is a phono-semantic compound.