In the Garden: What is this Plant?!?!

Would someone mind helping me identify this neighboring plant?

It grows right outside against the house

thanks so much!
-Robbie

 

Looks like Kerria japonica.

 

THanks for the fast reply!

dont know though. I live in Kentucky, and that would mean someone who lived here before me ordered the seeds and planted it since that's not a U.S. plant.

I was questioning the possibility of maybe it being an elm seedling?

what do you guys think?

-Robbie

 

Does look Ulmaceous. If not elm maybe hackberry.

 

Ditto Celtis

 

Thank you all for your contributions!

I am going with the hackberry as the solution to my dilemma.
Why I have a hackberry tree plant in a random spot in my yard is beyond me, but it is unmistakably identical to what the hackberry tree leaf looks like.

thanks again

-Robbie

 

The leaf veins looping before reaching teeth is different from veining in elms, which have mostly straight veins ending in teeth. This, as well as its zig-zag shoot tips, should make it a hackberry. Hackberries are now placed in family Cannabaceae together with hops and Indian hemp, on the strength of molecular evidence.