Common names include silver arctotis, kusgousblom, and blue-eyed African daisy.

[1] The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental, and has become naturalized in parts of the United States (California, Arizona, South Carolina),[2][3] Australia,[4] and Central and South America,[5] where it has escaped from gardens to become a noxious weed.

[6] Arctotis venusta is grown as a ground cover because of its silvery foliage and showy flower heads.

It is a perennial with stout, woolly stems and aromatic, violin-shaped, heavily lobed leaves.

The fruit is a hard achene with a tuft of plumelike hairs on one end and an array of pappus scales on the other.