The mean annual soil temperature is estimated to range between 47 to 55 degrees. It is normally silt loam containing a moderate amount of sand, but it is loam or sandy loam in some pedons. The B horizon has colors in the major part of the matrix with hue of 7.5YR or 5YR, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 3 or 4. Some subhorizons in some pedons have hue of 10YR, or chroma higher than 4, or both. Mottles are in the lower part of the loam in the upper part and heavy sandy loam, light clay loam or loam in the lower part.
Boundaries commonly are clear or gradual.
Some pedons range to very strongly acid in the middle part of the B horizon and to neutral in the lower part. A B3 horizon darker colored than the B2 horizon is in some pedons and lacking in others. Other soils in the same family are Arbor , Atkinson , Ayr , Burchard , Calmar , Corwin , Cresco , Door, Durand , Foresman , Friesland , Griswold , Hitt , Hockheim, Jasper , Joslin , La Rose , Linkville , Markesan , Mona , Morrill , Norborne , Pana , Parr , Plattville , Ringwood , Rockton , Rotamer , Shelby , Sibleyville , Symerton , Tippecanoe , Velma , and Wea series. All of these soils except Atkinson, Calmar, Durand, Joslin, Morrill, Pana, and Rockton lack hue as red as 5YR in the B horizon. Atkinson, Calmar, and Rockton soils have more clay in the lower part of the B horizon which formed in residuum weathered from limestone.