Some pedons have an E horizon up to 3 inches thick below the B horizon. It has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 or 6, chroma of 2 or 3, and has redoximorphic features. Typically, it is coarser-textured than the overlying horizon. The 2Cd horizon has hue of 2.5YR to 5Y and value and chroma of 2 to 6. It typically has redoximorphic features.
Texture ranges from loam to sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The horizon has weak or moderate, medium to very thick plates, or it is massive. Consistence is firm or very firm. Sutton and Wilbraham are the only series currently in the same family. Sutton soils do not have a densic contact. The poorly drained Wilbraham soils have iron depletions throughout the B horizon.