Texas Gardening: Plant ID help: I can't figure these out!, 1 by careyana

careyana wrote:
Walking in the greenbelt, I spotted these two fantastic plants. The first I suspect is a type of viburnum, but I can't find anything with blooms in spires? I pulled this from a shrub/tree about 5' tall and mostly in shade. Not sure why the pictures are so blue? The leaves were very glossy and dark green.

The second had blooms that looked similar to snapdragons (sorry they drooped very quickly - and most of the leaves fell off). It was about 10 inches tall, give or take. It more resembled a groundcover. The leaf in the first picture had tiny hairs. The seedpods are in the second picture - they were rather 'sticky' and some were on my shirt from carrying it back.