Is a norway maple common in central Indiana?
Still legal to sell and plant in Indiana as far as I can verify — the Terrestrial Plant Rule (312 IAC 18-3-25) banned 44 species effective April 2020 and Norway maple was deliberately excluded over nursery-industry impact, and the proposed twelve-species amendment that would add it has been stalled since 2021 by DNR rule recodification. Treat it as invasive in practice and keep it off recommendation lists, but do not tell customers it is banned; verify current rule status before publishing, because this is the one fact here most likely to change.
Why that matters for tree work
This is the tree planted every forty feet through central Indiana neighborhoods built from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the one arborists most often find strangled by its own roots. Snap a leaf stem to settle the ID in ten seconds: Norway maple bleeds opaque milky white latex from the petiole where sugar maple runs clear and watery.
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