This plant has made Colorado’s “B” List of Noxious Weeds.  The book says it has a milky latex that can be irritating to skin and eyes.  Also that foraging animals could get blisters from it.  All I know is that it is widespread at the river and that Bees love it.Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula)

Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula)

Grasses/Spurg at the River  (June 9, 2011)

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