Runoff is slow and in some places, ponded in late winter and spring or after snow melt or periods of excessive rainfall. The apparent seasonal high water table is at 0.5 foot above the surface to 1.0 foot below the surface during spring in most years. Permeability is moderate. Most areas of these soils are used for cultivated crops. Corn and soybeans are the principal crops.
Native vegetation is probably marsh grasses and sedges.
These soils are of large extent with more than 200,000 acres mapped. Ford County, Illinois, 1929. This pedon in Iroquois County is pedon number 84 in appendix IV of Soil Taxonomy. A till substratum, stratified sandy substratum, and occasionally flooded phases are recognized. These phases will be evaluated during MLRA update activities to determine if new series are needed.