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Tayport is a small town on the north Fife coast at the south side of the Tay Road Bridge approach, facing Broughty Ferry and the Dundee foreshore across the narrowing of the firth. The town was formerly known as Ferry-Port-on-Craig and served as a crossing point before the Tay bridges were built; its Victorian and Edwardian character survives in the residential streets of the older town, and the common ground of Tayport Links to the east provides a large area of coastal scrub, grassland and gorse that gives the town a distinctively semi-wild margin. The Tay estuary here narrows from the broad Tay mouth downstream, and the shoreline supports estuarine birds, saltmarsh and reedbeds. Tayport Links — a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its coastal heath and unimproved grassland — holds dense gorse and heather along its inland edge, providing one of the longest gorse-pollen seasons on the Fife coast from late winter through April. Oilseed rape on the Fife arable farmland south and west of the town gives the April–May early flow; sycamore on the older residential lane trees provides the early-summer flow. White clover on the improved grassland between Tayport and Newport-on-Tay carries colonies through June and July; the Links heather and gorse give a distinctive late supplement into September.

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.