Can anyone help me identify this shrub? Prior to my moving here it was sprayed with some pretty harsh herbicide. Since I've been here, it's been mowed off, stepped on, pruned back, and each year it keeps coming back. This year it is looking quite nice. After taking the pictures and looking at the stems/trunks I'm beginning to think it might be Russian Olive. I've never seen a baby one before, so I don't know.

Any enlightenment you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Hope I got these pictures sized right.

Good question, my first guess is bee balm.

Wouldn't bee balm flower? I don't know. This is in the shade on the north side of the house, so maybe it wouldn't.

It looks like honeysuckle. See if it has a small pink blossom when it blooms.

Bet it is honeysuckle, could have yellow blooms too I think. Bee Balm would have several shoots from the base.

definitely not bee balm. I think honeysuckle too.

My first guess was also honeysuckle. Could be lilac, but only the flowers will tell. Beebalm is more a perennial flower, not a shrub. Can google monarda for a picture.

Yep. As Wrennie said, definitely not monarda. Monarda's new growth isn't woody as this one appears to be.

My vote's for honeysuckle (Lonicera sempirvirens) as well. Fairly indestructible as evidenced by all you say it's been through. You can trim it a bit to shape it if you want. But this year, let it be just to see what kind of flowers it produces. If it's wild, most likely the flowers will be either white or yellow. You might luck out, and it may flower pinky-red. That's the one I have and it's a hummingbird magnet.

(This isn't my picture btw. Just an example for comparison): HONEYSUCKLE

Looks like a honeysuckle shrub.
If it is a shrub, most likely it is Lonicera japonica and is on the US invasive list.(might not be invasive where you live,Top)

L.sempirvirens is a native honeysuckle vine.
Nice photo,Gardenz...mine just broke dormancy.

Japanese Honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, Hall's honeysuckle is a vine not a shrub. I have it running here in my backyard. The leaves are rather shiny and further apart on the stem. Your pic looks more like a woody shrub.
Bush Honeysuckle has a toothed leaf, some good photos to help identify bush and Japanese honeysuckleas well as some plants that look similar:
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/invasive-...m#lonicera%20maackii

Thanks everybody for your pictues and ideas. This has never bloomed before, so I don't know if it will this year.

It's getting big enough that it's going to have to be moved. It's growing right under the living room window where we put the window AC. I'm not sure whether to move it somewhere sunny or put it in partial shade. Right now it only gets sun very first thing in the morning.

The honeysuckle we have have here is a shrub that gets six to eight feet tall, and has pink flowers on it. The orioles and hummingbirds sure like the flowers. It later has red fruit which the birds eat. Of course the birds then scatter the seed and this is how the species gets scattered all over. It is not invasive, but certainly oportunistic as many trees and shrubs are.

The one you have there could have been started by a bird dropping a seed. It would do better in full sun.