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Gourock is a seaside resort and Clyde ferry terminal at the western end of Inverclyde, where the firth broadens toward the Cowal peninsula and the views across to Dunoon and the Argyll hills are a prominent feature. The town sits at the foot of the Renfrewshire plateau, its upper streets merging directly into rough grazing and gorse-covered hillside. Gourock Park on the hillside above the town carries mature sycamore and is the most productive single public green space in the town; the Battery Park along the seafront provides a sheltered coastal grassland strip that supports white clover and other maritime flowers through the summer.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout Inverclyde, lining the Victorian and Edwardian streets of Greenock and Port Glasgow and covering the steeper hillsides above the town in semi-natural woodland. White clover on the amenity grasslands, parks and road verges of the coastal towns is the main mid-summer crop from June through August. Hawthorn on the hedgerows of the agricultural land between Kilmacolm and Inverkip provides a strong May blossom flow. The Renfrewshire Heights above Greenock and Inverkip carry extensive heather moorland from mid-July through September — one of the most accessible upland heather grounds from the Glasgow conurbation, and a traditional destination for beekeepers moving colonies in late July. Himalayan balsam is establishing on the Kip Water and Gryfe corridors. Bramble on old quarry and railway embankment sites around Greenock provides a useful late-summer supplement. Gorse and broom on the hillside rough grazing above the coastal towns provides a sustained spring flow from April. Ivy on the older stone buildings and Victorian tenements closes the calendar in October.