A hand, fingers open and slack, empty of any weapon, lay palm-up on a gravel slope beneath the large leaves of a mountain maple.

Tommyknockers is best known for their beer and flavored root beer, made with distinctive ingredients such as mountain cherry, mountain maple and valerian root.

Red spruce, Fraser fir, yellow birch, mountain ash, and mountain maple identify these forests, while hobblebush and bearberry occur in the understory.

The deciduous trees include Japanese mountain maple (山紅葉) and Japanese beech, and are more common in the higher altitudes.

Mountain maple, striped maple, and mountain ash characterize the understory at various elevations, with mountain maple being ubiquitous.

Beaked hazel and mountain maple comprise the modest shrub layer, while the ground cover is more litter and grasses than forbs.

Some of the most common plant species include the Bunchberry, Labrador Tea, blueberry, bearberry, larch, mountain maple, a wide variety of fungi.

Cara fanned herself with a handful of big leaves from a mountain maple.

The unique site conditions also support such uncommon species as climbing fumitory, mountain maple, bulbet fern, common polypody, and fragile fern.

Associated plants may include mountain maple (Acer spicatum), serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.)