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Erskine is a planned new town on the south bank of the Clyde, built from the early 1970s on a promontory below the Erskine Bridge. The town's layout incorporates generous green space, and the Clyde waterfront to the north carries a productive belt of willow, elder, himalayan balsam and gorse scrub that is accessible from most of the housing areas. The Bargarran and Rashielee neighbourhoods have mature amenity plantings of hawthorn, ornamental cherry and lime; the rough ground and wetland margins at the south of the peninsula add a varied summer forage including water mint, meadowsweet and bramble. The Erskine Bridge viewpoint grounds carry gorse and broom on exposed slopes above the river.

Hawthorn opens the Renfrewshire season in May on the lowland field boundaries between Paisley and the Clyde. White clover follows on the improved grasslands and golf course rough of the Clyde valley from June through July. Sycamore and lime are productive in the Paisley park belt, the Finlaystone and Milliken Park estate woodlands, and the West End villa gardens through June and July. Himalayan balsam is the defining late-summer flow: the Cart Water, Black Cart, Calder and Gryfe all carry dense stands from mid-July into September. Bramble is abundant on former industrial and railway land across the central towns. On the Gleniffer Braes and the Renfrewshire hills above Lochwinnoch, heather provides a late-summer supplement for those willing to move colonies to the moor.