# Alpine milk lettuce (Cicerbita alpina)

**Swedish: Turt | English: Alpine Blue-sow-thistle | Family: Asteraceae**

## FAQs

- **How big can Turt grow?**: A true plant giant! It grows between 80 and 200 cm high.
- **What flower color does the Alpine milk lettuce have?**: Radiant violet blue.
- **What role did Turt play in Sami culture?**: The succulent stems were a valued forage plant for lactating reindeer cows; In the past, young shoot tips were also eaten peeled by people.
- **When is flowering time?**: July to August.
- **Where does the plant grow?**: In cool, humus-rich ravine forests, along shady mountain streams and tall herbaceous meadows.
- **Why is it called 'Milchlattich'?**: When the stem is injured, a white milky sap comes out.