1st plant: It is fall right now, in Michigan. These are some pictures of when this plants leaves have changed color during the fall. http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136717790/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136721076/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136692001/in/photostream This might be the same kind of plant, however the leaves haven't changed to their fall color yet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136695191/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136696255/in/photostream Second plant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136727330/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/76284694@N02/8136772727/in/photostream I originally mistaked this as barberry. I tasted it and spitted it out, and it didn't taste like barberry. It was bitter.
Look like Privet, (Ligustrum sp.) and Euonymus possibly E. alatus. http://woodyplants.nres.uiuc.edu/plant/ligob61
First two are European Privet Ligustrum vulgare. Last is a spindle Euonymus. Good thing you spat it out, spindle berries are poisonous.
