Runoff potential is high. Permeability is moderately slow. These soils have a perched water table for brief periods during late winter and early spring in most years. Some abandoned areas have reverted to hardwood forest. White oak and red oak are the principal species.
Native vegetation is mixed hardwoods.
The series is of moderate extent. Osage County, Missouri, 1996. Useful soils were formerly mapped as Bucklick soils, moderately wet, but revision of Soil Taxonomy to include Oxyaquic subgroups dictated reclassification of these soils. The series pedon was selected from an eroded unit because of preponderant acreage.