The poorly drained and very poorly drained Mayer soils are on terrain similar to the Biscay soils. They are associated with the Estherville and Fairhaven hydrosequences in a few places. Poorly drained and very poorly drained. Surface runoff is negligible to low. Permeability is moderate in the upper part and rapid or very rapid in the lower part.
Native vegetation is a wet site plant community of the tall grass prairie.
This series is of moderate extent. McLeod County, Minnesota, 1948. Refer to MAES Central File Code Nos. 3303 and 3460 for results of some laboratory analysis of representative pedons of this series.