Northern Mountain Ash

Northern Mountain Ash
Sorbus decora

Indiana is at the very southern edge of the range of this species and has been extirpated in the wild.  It was reported from a few counties, mostly northwest, with one vouchered specimen at Butler University found in LaPorte county in 1924.  That seems to be the only vouchered specimen from Indiana.

Could it be re-introduced?  Perhaps.  The vouchered specimen was found in sandy black oak woods.  The Michigan Flora website describes its habitat as:

Forested dunes and bluffs, especially frequent at edges of forests along Lake Superior; deciduous, mixed, and coniferous forests, often with fir, cedar, and pine, but sometimes in beech-maple stands; seems to thrive particularly well along shores, perhaps because of the moister climate and perhaps because released from competition of larger trees in the forest.

It might be worth a try!