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Howden is a small market town in the south of the East Riding on the northern bank of the River Ouse, close to its confluence with the Humber estuary. The town is dominated by the dramatic ruined east end of Howden Minster — one of the grandest Decorated Gothic churches in Yorkshire — whose crumbling chapter house and roofless choir stand above a sheltered churchyard of old lime and sycamore. The flat Humber floodplain surrounding the town is largely arable with hawthorn and field maple hedgerows, and oilseed rape is the defining spring flow across the Marshland to the south. The Ouse banks carry willowherb, elder, reed canary grass and meadowsweet well into July; bramble is dense along every farm track and dyke edge; and ivy on the old brick minster walls and market-town buildings gives a reliable late flow.

Oilseed rape is the defining early flow across the Wolds and Holderness plain. Hawthorn and field maple line the hedgerows. Lime lights the streets of Beverley, Driffield, Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull) and Bridlington. The Wolds chalk grasslands carry thyme, knapweed and sainfoin; bramble and rosebay willowherb are universal. Coastal sea-buckthorn at Spurn adds a distinctive late-summer flow, and a strong ivy flow on the East Riding's pantile villages closes the year.