Is an eastern red cedar common in central Indiana?
Native and abundant across central Indiana — the default volunteer in old pasture and along interstate fencerows. It is genuinely salt-tolerant, so it survives roadside and driveway-edge positions that brown out white pine and spruce every winter, and it turns up on native-replacement lists now that Callery pear has fallen out of favour here — though it is not, despite the common assumption, banned from sale in Indiana.
Why that matters for tree work
It is native here and it plants itself — birds drop seed in fencerows, along drives, and in any corner that stopped getting mowed, so most red cedar quotes start with "this thing appeared and now it's 25 feet tall against the garage." The second driver is cedar-apple rust: red cedar is the alternate host, so anyone with apples or crabapples eventually wants the cedar gone.
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