Hello, can someone suggest what this might be?

http://www.reddawn.net/dawn/photos/plant.jpg

I cut a piece and put it on the scanner. I've got three of these woody,
leggy things about a foot high growing in the front flowerbed under a
very large and established winged euonymous where they have no room and
no light. I suspect they were planted by the previous owner shortly
before we moved in here. I've been cutting them back pretty severely
because all they do is grow into the lawn and get in the lawnmower, but
I need to know what it really is and if it's worth keeping and moving
someplace else.


Dawn