The plants that are in your own backyard could disfigure your children if they get their hands on it.

The plant is called Myrtle Spurge, and it's toxic.

The milky white substance inside the plant can do some real damage to your skin. It blistered up 6 little girls in Colorado Springs.

Myrtle Spurge can be quite beautiful. "You used to be able to buy it," said Horticulturist Annelle Marshall who works at Rick's Garden Center. But not anymore. "Remove the plant," said Marshall.

Otherwise, if you make contact with it, it could severely burn your skin.

"Panic," said Danielle Sena who is a mother of three. Tami Ekholm is also a mother of three. The two moms each have three little girls, and on Saturday something very bizarre happened.

"Blistering, red faces and swelling," said Sena.

"They looked like they had just blown up," said Ekholm.

The two women's oldest girls Isabelle and Patty say they were doing what children do, using their imaginations. "We were pretending we were pilgrims," said Patty Ekholm.

All six girls were in the Sena's yard. The girls were improvising and plucking up the Myrtle Spurge. "We were pretending it could be like milk and we squeezed it out into a cup," said Isabelle Sena.

They didn't know, but the milky white substance inside the plant is poisonous.

"I noticed my lips and tongue were really numb," said Patty Ekholm.

"Our tongues were burning too," said Isabelle Sena.

"I couldn't recognize her face Sunday morning," said Danielle Sena.

"What did they get into?" said Tami Ekholm.

The parents quickly figured out it was the plant, and some-how the girls had gotten the white sticky stuff all over their faces.

Immediately they removed the Myrtle Spurge by hand, then went to the store, bought weed killer and zapped the roots out.

"In the last five-years or so it's been considered a noxious weed because it does over take a garden," said Marshall.

If you have Myrtle Spurge growing on your property it's recommended that you get rid of it as quickly as possible.

The girl's faces will heal with-out any scarring. Their parents are urging other parents to check out what's in their yards.

As for the Myrtle Spurge, it is not native to Colorado, it doesn't require a lot of water and that's why some people liked planting them.

Myrtle Spurge is also known as Creeping Spurge and Donkey Tail.