Mark Mayfield
Research assistant professor of biology
Mark Mayfield, research assistant professor of biology at Kansas State University, is K-State's plant identification expert. Mayfield works at K-State's herbarium, which contains more than 185,000 species of plants and seeds, most of which date back as far as the late 1880s.
Prior to joining K-State in August 2000, Mayfield was associate director of the herbarium at Louisiana State University.
He received his bachelor's degree in biology in 1987 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and a doctorate degree in botany in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mayfield can be reached at 785-532-2795 or by e-mail at markherb@k-state.edu.
Herbarium questions should be addressed to herbariu@k-state.edu. The herbarium's Web site is http://www.konza.ksu.edu/herbarium