Is an eastern cottonwood common in central Indiana?
Native and common on central-Indiana floodplains and wet ground — the White River, Fall Creek, and Eagle Creek corridors and the low back corners of newer subdivisions. It volunteers freely around detention basins and on the high-water-table lots where topsoil was stripped, which is precisely where it ends up too close to a house.
Why that matters for tree work
The other removal-first tree on this list, and the one most often standing over a house it was never meant to be near. It is the fastest-growing native tree in North America — 4 to 5 ft of height per year, sometimes more, for the first 25 to 30 years — so the little volunteer in a wet back corner is a 60-ft liability within about 15 years.
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