Rainbow soils have a seasonal high water table. Cleared areas are used mostly for cultivated crops, hay, or pasture. Some areas are used for vegetables, nursery stock, and other specialty crops. Scattered areas are used for community development. Stony areas are mostly wooded.
Common trees are ash, hemlock, white pine, hickory, red and white oak, red maple, and sugar maple.
The series is of moderate extent. Hartford County, Connecticut, 1959. This revision reflects change in soil taxonomy and general updating. Cation exchange activity class placement determined from a review of limited lab data and similar or associated soils. Rainbow soils were previously classified as Aquic Dystrochrepts and before that as Typic Fragiochrepts.