Hey all, here is a valuable heads up from Pat and Demelza:
When you get a chance, check out www.cwma.org and click on Myrtle Spurge. It’s now on Colorado’s top noxious weed list and is dangerous to our dogs and other critters. Tyler ended up with burn type blisters on his face, thanks to a neighbor kid “flicking” the inside milky substance onto him. Mostly found in rock gardens, this weed is making it’s way into some of our tracking areas. Heads up.
In closing, here is an awesome follow up from D:
This is a NASTY weed – Tyler is doped up on Benedryl and burn cream, his face and neck has crusty blisters. I’m calling the weed police (not that weed……lol) tomorrow to get it eradicated from my redneck neighbors yard. The dipshit used a weed wacker on it and now there’s myrtle spurge shrapnel all over the road and our driveways.
It’s illegal to have it at all in Colorado.
The Colorado Noxious Weed Act,
§§ 35-5.5-101 – 119. C.R.S. (2003),
designates myrtle spurge as a Class A
Noxious Weed that must be
eradicated. It is a violation of this
law to allow myrtle spurge to
“produce seed or develop other
reproductive propagules.” To
read the complete act, visit:
www.ag.state.co.us .
