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Holyhead (Caergybi) is Anglesey's largest town and the principal Irish Sea ferry port, built around the inner harbour on Holy Island — a rocky quartzite promontory joined to Anglesey by road and rail causeways. Holyhead Mountain rises to 220 metres behind the town, its summit ridges carrying heather and gorse that support local colonies through August; the Breakwater Country Park on the north shore sustains bramble, blackthorn and sea buckthorn in sheltered gullies. The oilseed rape grown on the Anglesey plateau east of the A55 gives an early May crop, and hawthorn on the hedges between Holyhead and Trearddur Bay follows through late spring. The Anglesey BKA covers this corner of the island.

Oilseed rape on the Anglesey plateau — grown widely between Llangefni, Gwalchmai and Llanerchymedd — gives a generous early May crop. Hawthorn on deep double-hedges follows through the agricultural lanes; white clover persists on the dairy pastures through summer. Gorse dominates the west-coast clifftops and coastal heath of Holy Island and the Lligwy headland from March onward; heather and bilberry add a late-August supplement on Mynydd Llwydiarth and the higher Mynydd Parys plateau. Coastal dune slacks at Newborough Warren and Aberffraw carry wild thyme, kidney vetch and bird's-foot trefoil — distinctive forage found in few other Welsh regions. Sea lavender on the Malltraeth Estuary and Cefni margins adds seasoning; bramble is universal on scrub, hedgerow and forest edge; ivy on old stone farmhouses and coastal cottages closes the year.