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Lochgelly is a former mining town in central Fife between Cowdenbeath and Loch Leven, whose collieries produced anthracite coal from the late eighteenth century through to the closure of the last pits in the 1960s. The town is named for the Loch Gelly that once lay at its centre and was drained in the nineteenth century, and it retains the close-packed terraced character of a Scottish mining community, with a strong sense of civic pride expressed through its parks, gardens and community institutions. The regeneration of the former colliery land south of the town has created open green space and wetland habitat that now supports a range of flowering plants including willowherb, ragwort, devil's-bit scabious and bird's-foot trefoil on the reclaimed ground. Loch Fitty, the recreation reservoir north of the town, provides bankside willow, alder and elder forage through summer; oilseed rape on the Fife plateau farmland around Lochgelly gives the dominant April–May early-season flow. Sycamore on the town lane trees provides the May flow; white clover on the improved grassland between Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath is the main June and July source. Lime on the parkland plantings in the town centre gives a June supplement; ivy on the older stone and harled properties closes the year.

Oilseed rape is the defining early Fife flow across the central plain. Raspberry canes on the Howe of Fife add an unusual early-summer crop. Sycamore and lime carry May into June in St Andrews, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Cupar. The Lomond Hills and parts of the north Fife moors give bell and ling heather. Coastal sea-aster and samphire along the East Neuk add seasoning; ivy on old fisher-town gables closes the year.