Permeability is very slow. Water enters rapidly when the soil is dry and cracked, and very slowly when the soil is moist. Used for cropland, pasture, and range. Main crops are cotton, small grain, corn and grain sorghum. Pastures are mainly common and coastal bermudagrass.
Native vegetation is bluestems, sideoats grama, buffalograss, and Texas wintergrass.
Scattered mesquite, elm, and hackberry trees are in some areas. Mainly in the Grand Prairie of north-central Texas. The series is extensive with about 295,000 acres correlated. These soils were formerly included in the San Saba and Houston Black series. Moist chroma of less than 1.5 in the upper 12 inches in more than half of each pedon.