diff --git a/confection/__init__.py b/confection/__init__.py
index 9c6922c..6d500ca 100644
--- a/confection/__init__.py
+++ b/confection/__init__.py
@@ -895,8 +895,11 @@ def _fill(
                 field_type = EmptySchema
                 if key in schema.__fields__:
                     field = schema.__fields__[key]
-                    field_type = field.type_
-                    if not isinstance(field.type_, ModelMetaclass):
+                    if hasattr(field, "type_"):
+                        field_type = field.type_
+                    else:
+                        field_type = field.annotation
+                    if not isinstance(field_type, ModelMetaclass):
                         # If we don't have a pydantic schema and just a type
                         field_type = EmptySchema
                 filled[key], validation[v_key], final[key] = cls._fill(
diff --git a/confection/tests/test_config.py b/confection/tests/test_config.py
index 5873eb2..9778054 100644
--- a/confection/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/confection/tests/test_config.py
@@ -8,12 +8,15 @@
 import pytest
 
 try:
+    from pydantic import BaseModel as BaseModelv2
     from pydantic.v1 import BaseModel, PositiveInt, StrictFloat, constr
     from pydantic.v1.types import StrictBool
 except ImportError:
-    from pydantic import BaseModel, StrictFloat, PositiveInt, constr  # type: ignore
+    from pydantic import BaseModel, PositiveInt, StrictFloat, constr  # type: ignore
     from pydantic.types import StrictBool  # type: ignore
 
+    BaseModelv2 = None  # type: ignore
+
 from confection import Config, ConfigValidationError
 from confection.tests.util import Cat, make_tempdir, my_registry
 from confection.util import Generator, partial
@@ -1431,3 +1434,31 @@ def test_parse_strings_interpretable_as_ints():
     )
     assert cfg["a"]["foo"] == [3, "003", "y"]
     assert cfg["b"]["bar"] == 3
+
+
+@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::DeprecationWarning")
+def test_field_type():
+    if BaseModelv2 is not None:
+
+        class MyValue:
+            def validate(cls, value):
+                return value
+
+            @classmethod
+            def __get_validators__(cls):
+                yield cls.validate
+
+        class SectionSchema(BaseModelv2):
+            value: MyValue
+
+        class MainSchema(BaseModelv2):
+            section: SectionSchema
+
+        cfg = Config().from_str(
+            """
+            [section]
+            value = 1
+            """
+        )
+
+        my_registry.fill(cfg, schema=MainSchema)