Plant ID-1

Hello,

I'm a new home owner and have never really done any gardening so appreciate your patience and help in identifying these plants so that I can properly care for them.

This is a yellow flower on what appears to be a leafy bush.

 

It is a shrubby Potentilla.
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-41.pdf

 

Dasiphora fruticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil, formerly Potentilla fruticosa).

For info on the genus change, see: Eriksson, T., Hibbs, M. S., Yoder, A. D., Delwiche, C. F., & Donoghue, M. J. (2003). The Phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the TRNL/F region of chloroplast DNA. Int. J. Plant Sci. 164(2): 197–211 http://www.biology.duke.edu/yoderlab/pdfs/2003,%20Eriksson%20et%20al,%20IJPS.pdf (pdf file).

 

Thank you Michael, I hadn't realised it had had a name change!