Is a hackberry common in central Indiana?
Native and common across central Indiana, especially in bottomlands and fencerows, and now planted widely in streets and parks as one of the recommended post-EAB ash replacements. That popularity is worth flagging to customers — the standard urban forestry guideline is no more than 10% of the canopy in any one species, and several Indiana municipal planting programs are leaning hard on hackberry.
Why that matters for tree work
The tough one — hackberry shrugs off compacted clay, alkaline soil, road salt, drought, wind and short-term flooding, which is precisely why it has been planted so heavily as an ash replacement across central Indiana. The part nobody mentions at planting time is that it was one of the most ice-damaged species in the ISA's ice-storm survey, so the trade for that site tolerance is recurring storm calls.
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