Soils of Maryland

Ultisols — strongly weathered, leached soils with a clay-enriched subsoil

The state soil, Sassafras, ranks 9th of 324 series here on 117,443 acres. First place goes to Glenelg, an Ultisol covering 5.8% of the state’s mapped soil. Ultisols make up over half of the mapped soil (63.9%).

Atlas series mapped in MarylandGuide: state soils and where series began