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Chryston is a village on the northeastern edge of Glasgow, between Stepps and Moodiesburn, set on the gently rolling plateau where the city fringe transitions into North Lanarkshire farmland. The Luggie Water runs through Chryston, its corridor carrying hawthorn, elder and sycamore scrub in a sheltered burn valley. The agricultural land between Chryston, Muirhead and Moodiesburn retains a mix of pasture and arable with white clover strong on the improved grasslands through June and July. The Crow Wood Golf Course and the parkland of Auchinloch to the north provide additional forage; sycamore on the roadsides is the dominant May flow source.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree across North Lanarkshire, most productive in the residential streets and country parks of the Clyde plain. White clover on the improved amenity grasslands and the agricultural fields of the Kelvin and Calder valleys peaks in June and July. The Forth and Clyde Canal corridor through Kilsyth carries himalayan balsam from late July; bramble is prolific on the former steelworks and colliery reclamation sites throughout Motherwell, Coatbridge and Bellshill. Drumpellier Country Park near Coatbridge and Strathclyde Country Park near Motherwell provide sheltered lime and hawthorn parkland forage. The Campsie Fells above Kilsyth carry heather and bilberry from late July into September — accessible heather ground for North Lanarkshire beekeepers willing to make a short journey up the hill. Gorse is dense on the moorland fringe above Kilsyth and Cumbernauld; ivy closes the calendar in October in the older town centres.