These are the competing Appling , Cecil , Lloyd Madison , and Wedowee series, and the Cataula , Hayesville , Lockhart , Louisburg , Rion , Wateree series. Cataula soils have a layer in the Bt horizon that is dense and partially brittle. Hayesville soils have a mesic temperature regime. Lockhart soils have more than 35 percent rock fragments in the particle-size control section. Louisburg, Rion, and Wateree soils have less than 35 percent clay in the particle-size control section.
Most areas are in forests of pine and mixed hardwoods.
Cleared areas are used for small grain, hay, and pasture. The Piedmont of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Catawba County, North Carolina, 1969. The December 1987 revision recognized the low activity clay property of this soil and reclassification to Kanhapludults. Pacolet soils were formerly mapped as a thin solum phase of the Cecil series.