Reaction is very strongly acid to moderately acid. The Cd horizon has hue of 2.5Y, 5Y, or 5GY, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 1 through 4. It is silt loam, loam or very fine sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction. It has weak or moderate, thin to very thick platy structure or weak to strong, coarse or very coarse prismatic that may part to platy, all of which is inherited from the parent material, or the horizon is massive. Consistence is firm or very firm, slightly sticky and slightly plastic or plastic.
Reaction is strongly acid to neutral.
There are currently no other series in the same family Pillsbury soils are in a related family. They have less than 10 percent clay in the particle-size control section. Monarda soils are on lower slopes or in slight depressions on till plains. Slopes range from 0 to 15 percent. The soils formed in dense glacial till derived mainly from slate, metasandstone, phyllite and shale with small amounts of granite, fine grained quartzite and sandstone.