Is a norway spruce common in central Indiana?
Not native — no spruce is native to Indiana — but by far the best-adapted spruce for the state and the standard recommendation to replace failing blue spruce. Common in older farm windbreaks, church and school plantings, and as a farmstead screen, where the 1950s-70s plantings are now full-size trees.
Why that matters for tree work
This is the spruce that actually works in Indiana — Purdue recommends it as the replacement when blue spruce fails, because it carries real resistance to Rhizosphaera needle cast. The catch is scale: people plant it as "a spruce" on a quarter-acre lot and end up with a seventy-foot tree eight feet off the foundation.
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