Shrubs as a group have always been difficult for me to identify unless they have highly individual blooms, fruits, or leaves. You'd be surprised how many understory plants in local woodlands that excludes. Certain species grow either as shrubs (multi-stem relatively short woody plants) or small trees (relatively tall woody plants with a single trunk or a small number of main trunks), depending on climate, care and training or pruning, and terrain. It then becomes somewhat arbitrary whether I display pictures of them here, in various tree galleries, or I wimp out and include them both places. Many of my older pictures of shrubs have concentrated on just the fruit or the flowers, and I don't yet have 'full body' shots that illustrate typical growth habits of the plant as a whole. Over time I hope to correct that deficiency. For now, I won't differentiate between native North American shrubs and imports, or ones I've photographed on various trips.

Rhododendrons, azaleas, and other laurels, if any, occupy a separate gallery in the cyber arboretum, here: http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Nature/Cyber-Arboretum/Rhododendrons-Azaleas-Heath/22917330_PjkgNK

Note that the shrubby varieties of the dogwood family are in the Genus Cornus gallery, here: http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Nature/Cyber-Arboretum/Genus-Cornus-Dogwood-Trees-etc/20145867_VcBNw9, with the occasional picture collected here as a reminder.