Catalpa and Gowen soils have chroma of 2 or more in layers below the A horizon. In addition, Gowen soils are in a fine-loamy family. Gladewater soils are aquerts. Moderately well drained. Permeability is very slow.
Water enters the soil rapidly when it is dry and cracked and very slowly when it is wet.
Runoff is low. Most cleared areas are in pasture of dallisgrass, bermudagrass, and fescues. A few areas are used for producing cotton, corn, sorghums, and soybeans. Native vegetation is hardwoods such as elm, hackberry, oak, ash, and grasses which includes species of andropogon, paspalum, panicum, and tripsacum. Flood plains of streams draining Blackland Prairies from Texas to Alabama.