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Winter Jasmine: Yellow-Flowered Bush, Oklahoma

[Friend Bill D helped me work out that this is Winter Jasmine]
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A yellow-flowered bush, likely non-native? that we started from canes we dug up on a corner in northeast Oklahoma City around 2005? Blooms in winter around February, before leaves. Thin canes come from the ground and do not branch. It spreads, sending up more canes. It resembles forsythia but the blossoms are different and the non-branching habit is different.

I need to take more pictures now that the flowers are gone and the leaves are out, to help with ID.
Most of the flowers have 6 petals; some have 5, rarely one has 7.
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Most of the flowers have 6 petals; some have 5, rarely one has 7.

 Showing flowers and buds on the bare stems.
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Showing flowers and buds on the bare stems.

 It grows from slender canes from the ground that do not branch. Blooms very early, usually in February.
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It grows from slender canes from the ground that do not branch. Blooms very early, usually in February.

 The green stems come straight from the ground.
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The green stems come straight from the ground.
Showing our forsythia bush for comparison; blooming in March, much branching, 4-petaled flowers.
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Showing our forsythia bush for comparison; blooming in March, much branching, 4-petaled flowers.

 Forsythia again, 4-petaled flowers.
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Forsythia again, 4-petaled flowers.

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