Reaction is moderately acid or slightly acid in the upper part and ranges to slightly alkaline in the lower part. It has redoximorphic features. It is sandy loam, clay loam, loam, silty clay loam, or silt loam. Clay content ranges from 15 to 30 percent and sand content ranges from 15 to 70 percent. Coarse fragment content is less than 15 percent.
Reaction is slightly acid to moderately alkaline.
Some pedons have a subhorizon just above a calcareous 2C horizon that is enriched in clay and has darker value than the subhorizon above it. It is sandy loam or loam and commonly contains strata of loamy sand, sand or silt loam. Clay content ranges from 2 to 15 percent and sand content ranges from 40 to 95 percent. Volume of coarse fragments commonly is less than 15 percent. Arrowsmith soils contain less than 7 percent sand in the lower part of the series control section.