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Abertillery (Abertyleri) is the main commercial centre of the lower Ebbw Fach valley, a tightly built town of stone and brick terraces whose valley sides rise steeply to rough pasture and gorse above 300 metres. The Ebbw Fach river runs through the town, flanked by willows and elder; the slopes above Tyleri Road carry sycamore woodland transitioning to open heathland with bilberry and western gorse above the treeline. Bramble is dense on every reclaimed tip margin and ex-colliery bank in the valley, giving bees a prolonged mid-summer flow, while white clover is abundant on the numerous playing fields. The Gwent Beekeepers' Association covers the Ebbw Fach valley and maintains a swarm collector roster for Abertillery and the surrounding townships.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout the borough, flowering profusely on the valley sides from Blaina to Brynmawr. Hawthorn on the valley-rim hedgerows and blackthorn in the gorse-edge scrub supplements the April flow. Bramble is exceptionally dense on the extensive reclaimed colliery tip and forestry margins — a prolonged and reliable mid-summer crop — and rosebay willowherb adds colour and forage on every disturbed bank. White clover covers the playing fields and recreation grounds of the valley-floor settlements; the Clydach Gorge ash woods below Brynmawr add a limestone-flora element unusual in the valleys. Ling heather and bilberry on the plateau above 350 metres at Beaufort, Brynmawr and Tredegar give accessible late-summer heather forage rarely available this close to a valley settlement. A strong ivy flow on old stone terraces and chapel walls closes the year in October.