These soils are not dry for as many as 30 days during the 120 days following the summer solstice. It is silty clay loam or, less commonly, silt loam. Reaction ranges from medium acid to neutral, although pedons that have been limed range to slightly alkaline. Clean silt grains are evident when the soil is dry. It is silty clay loam or, less commonly, silt loam.
Reaction ranges from moderately acid to neutral.
The BE horizon has clean silt grains as coatings on faces of peds. Other pedons have weakly expressed E horizons. It commonly is silty clay loam but some pedons are silty clay. Average clay content ranges from 35 and 42 percent clay, but individual subhorizons contain as much as 46 percent clay. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to neutral.