Emmet soils are coarse-loamy and have fewer rock fragments. Kalkaska soils are very deep, sandy soils. Posen soils are loamy- skeletal and have more rock fragments. The somewhat poorly drained Solona soils are in lower landscape positions. Surface runoff is slow to rapid.
Permeability is moderate in the loamy part and very rapid in the substratum.
Most areas of this soil are forested. Overstory vegetation consists of sugar maple, American basswood, quaking aspen, bigtooth aspen, eastern white pine and balsam fir. Some of the common forest understory vegetation includes sugar maple, sweet cicely, Canada white violet, smooth yellow violet, ladyfern, rosy twistedstalk, Canada mayflower, American fly honeysuckle, and false Solomons seal. Eastern Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Guardlake series is inextensive.