Possible Clues:

• Early blooming shrub with bright yellow flowers
• Soft hairy bats found in the gardens of China
• Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers
• Yellow-flowered shrub
• Revolutionary soft, hairy shrub
• Scattered hay first around old shrub
• Bush -- fellow changed history, beginning in Afghanistan
• Say a frosty hi to the early blooming shrub with bright yellow flowers
• Bruce's namesake's got one a plant
• Unusually soft, hairy shrub