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Lossiemouth is a coastal town at the mouth of the River Lossie, best known for RAF Lossiemouth and its long sandy beaches flanked by the Covesea dunes. The town is set between the river estuary, which carries a fringe of elder, willow and reed, and the golf links of Moray Golf Club with their turf of white clover and bird's-foot trefoil. The Covesea caves and headland to the west carry sea thrift, wild thyme and gorse on the exposed limestone and boulder clay. Oilseed rape grows on the farmland south of the town towards Elgin, and the Lossie riverside walk provides a sheltered mid-summer forage corridor.

Oilseed rape on the coastal Laigh of Moray is the defining spring flow: dense sowings between Elgin, Forres and Fochabers flower from late April and can fill a super rapidly on warm days. White clover follows on the improved grassland and roadside verges of the coastal plain through June and July. Sycamore is the dominant woodland forage tree, supplemented by hawthorn on field margins and elder along burn and river corridors. The heather of the Speyside hills and the Dava Moor above Grantown provides a significant late-summer crop accessible from Forres, Keith and the inland villages. Raspberries are grown commercially in parts of the Spey valley, adding a nectar source less common elsewhere in Scotland.