Boswell soils are moderately well drained and more clayey. They are in lower positions on foot slopes and benches. Mashulaville and Pheba soils are on very gently sloping terraces and broad flats on uplands. Mashalaville soils are poorly drained and less clayey. Pheba soils are somewhat poorly drained and have coarse-silty control sections.
Permeability is moderate in the upper part of the solum and moderately slow in the fragipan.
These soils have a perched water table at a depth of 24 to 40 inches during the months of high rainfall. Most areas of the Ora soils are either cropped to cotton, corn, small grains, and truck crops, or used for hay and pasture. Principal vegetation of wooded areas is loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, or longleaf pine, or pines mixed with oaks, hickory, and sweetgum. Southern Coastal Plain in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The series is of large extent.