Proven Winners - Ice Ballet - Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata white plant details, information and resources. Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet' (Swamp Milkweed) lights up the mid-summer garden with vanilla scented, pillowy clusters of snow-white flowers. Deep green foliage and white flowers that bloom from mid-summer to fall are the perfect backdrop for brightly colored butterflies that visit each summer.
A white selection of our native Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet' produces large clusters of tiny white blooms, each resembling a member of the corps de ballet in Swan Lake. HABITAT & HARDINESS: ‘ Asclepias incarnata ‘Ice Ballet’ is a nursery selection of the native Swamp Milkweed so it does not exist in the wild. Plants are hardy from USDA Zones 3-9. Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet' is a long-blooming, bright white selection of swamp milkweed.
asclepias ice ballet, Clear white flowers and dark green foliage - a butterfly favorite! 'Ice Ballet' Swamp Milkweed produces fragrant bright white milkweed flowers in flat clumps (umbels) in July and August. An important native host for Monarch butterfly larvae, Asclepias 'Ice Ballet' is an excellent addition to rain gardens, bioswales and moist meadows. Asclepias incarnata, commonly called swamp milkweed, is an erect, clump-forming, Missouri native plant which is commonly found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows throughout the State. It typically grows 3-4' tall (less frequently to 5') on branching stems.
