Near the type location the mean annual air temperature is 67 degrees F. and mean annual precipitation is 46 inches. Sunsweet sandy loam - cultivated. Solum thickness ranges from 60 to more than 120 inches. Depth to horizons containing 5 percent or more plinthite ranges from 5 to 15 inches. Content of rounded ironstone nodules ranges from 5 to 35 percent in the A and Btc horizon, from 0 to 15 percent in the Btv1 and Btv2 horizons and 0 to 5 percent in the lower Bt horizon.
Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid except where the A horizon has been limed.
It is sandy loam, loamy sand or their gravelly analogues. It is sandy clay loam, sandy clay, clay or their gravelly analogues. Plinthite is 0 to 10 percent. The Btv1 and Btv2 horizons have the same matrix color as the Btc horizon but have few to many red, brown, yellow and gray mottles. Texture is sandy clay or clay but ranges to sandy clay loam in the Btv1 horizon.