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Help identifying a plant #2

 
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I found this small forest shrub just behind a forest garden on one of my lawn edges.  Help!  I really want to know what it is.  It's about 2' tall, has hanging twin yellow flowers, and the stems have "knuckles" (what is those features actually called?) along them where I assume growth stopped for a season and then restarted?  I assume these are wild here.  I know that I did not plant them.  Any ideas?
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small mystery forest shrub
small mystery forest shrub
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circled the knuckles
 
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The look of the leaf buds and the fact that the flowers are two by two makes me think some sort of honeysuckle? Maybe? Admittedly the flowers themselves don't look exactly like the honeysuckle flowers I'm familiar with, but there seems to be some that aren't too dissimilar. Look at Lonicera pileata, for instance.


 
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Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirca_palustris
 
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