These soils are on uplands and have slopes ranging from 0 to 10 percent. Near the type location, mean annual temperature is about 62 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 48 inches. Solum thickness is more than 60 inches. Coarse fragments of small pebbles, gravel, and concretions range up to about 5 percent in some pedons.
Reaction is strongly acid to extremely acid except where the surface has been limed.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, or 2.5Y value of 2 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4. Texture is loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, and fine sandy loam. The E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 6. Texture is loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, and fine sandy loam. The BE horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 3 to 6.