
Northern red oak is the fast-growing, well-behaved oak that actually works in central Indiana yards — it takes heavy clay, handles road salt and city air better than the other oaks here, and puts on real size within one owner's lifetime. Its entire risk profile is one disease: it is the most oak wilt vulnerable common landscape oak in Indiana, and an infected red oak can go from full canopy to dead in a single season.
Large tree · $400–$1,900 typical
Also searched as red oak, eastern red oak, Quercus rubra.