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Over her career, Lucy Braun wrote four books and 180 articles published in over twenty journals. Her most famous work was the book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America, which was published in 1950. Francis Fosberg said of her book "one can only say that it is a definitive work, and that it has reached a level of excellence seldom or never before attained in American ecology or vegetation science, at least in any work of comparable importance." Braun carried out research in vascular plant floristics and deciduous forests. She founded the Wildflower Preservation Society of North America. As a professor, she had thirteen MA students and one PhD student, nine of which were women; the mentorship of graduate students was uncommon for female professors at the time.
- In 1943, she published An Annotated Catalog of Spermatophytes.
- In 1955, she published The Phytogeography of Unglaciated Eastern United States and Its Interpretation.
- In the 1960s she published The Woody Plants of Ohio and The Monocotyledoneae: Cat-tails to Orchids.
She compared the flora in particular areas with the flora from a century earlier. She influenced the process by which regional changes in flora were analyzed over time.
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