Where slopes are long, both Lamoni and Shelby soils are commonly on the same side slope. On steep slopes, Lamoni soils are usually on the interfluves or shoulders of slopes and the Shelby soils are on the entire side slope. Somewhat poorly drained. Lamoni soils are seasonally wet and seepy. Runoff is medium or rapid.
Permeability is slow or very slow.
Depth to an intermittent perched water table is 1 to 3 feet at some time from November through July in most years. Native vegetation was tall prairie grasses. They are extensive. Scotland County, Missouri, 1969. Changes include proposals made in Amendment 17 of Soil Taxonomy.