The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR, 10YR, or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 8. Mottles, if they occur, are in shades of red, brown, or yellow. Texture is loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or silt loam in the fine-earth fraction. The C horizon is multicolored or similar in color to the Bw horizon. It is saprolite weathered from high-grade metamorphic rocks high in mica content such as mica gneiss, mica schist, and pegmatite. .
Texture is commonly loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or silt loam.
In some pedons, the C horizon is sand, coarse sand, or coarse sandy loam. The Manor and Micaville series are the only other known series in this family. The Brownwood , Cashiers , Fannin , Mt. Airy , and Watauga series are in closely related families. Manor soils have hue of 7. 5YR or redder and formed from mica schist in the Northern Piedmont . Micaville soils have a paralithic contact at depths of 40 to 60 inches.