Description Asclepias incarnata ‘Ice Ballet’, like the other milkweeds, is a species that arose as a result of an evolutionary arms race with different butterfly species who drove the milkweeds to develop increasingly toxic poisons in their milky sap to fend off the butterflies’ ravenous caterpillars. So leave the chewing to the monarchs! This species has upright branching stems with oblong leaves topped with dense clusters of tiny, pure white, vanilla-scented flowers which attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Tolerant of moist, wet or average garden soils. Deer resistant.
