Is a box elder common in central Indiana?
Native to every county in Indiana and completely at home here, most abundant along creeks, ditches, fencerows and the neglected back edges of subdivision lots. Nurseries do not sell it, so effectively every one you quote on grew itself — which means it is almost always standing in exactly the wrong place.
Why that matters for tree work
Almost nobody plants this — it arrives as a volunteer in a fencerow, along a back fence or six feet off a foundation, and by the time anyone notices it is a thirty-foot tree with brittle wood and a rotting center. It is also the source of the box elder bugs massing on the sunny south wall every October, and extension guidance on that is blunt: removing the female tree is the reliable control.
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