Typical food plants include common nettle, docks, common knotgrass, fat hen, common chickweed, and yarrow. It is used to kill unwanted weeds such as dandelions, plantain, clover, and chickweed. They'll glean the seeds of grass, dandelions, chickweed, sunflowers and ragweed. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea purslane. Examples of crop weeds include chickweed, barnyard grass, dandelion, striga and "Japanese knotweed". The larvae feed on low growing plants such as knotgrass, dandelion and chickweed. Some common winter annuals include henbit, deadnettle, chickweed, and winter cress. The species feeds on delicate and soft-leaved plants, such as chickweed ,dandelion and "Lathyrus". The larvae feed on various plants, including chickweed, clover and elm. Disturbed sites produce chickweed, and plantain ("Musa"). Distinctive plants include the Gibraltar candytuft, white Gibraltar chickweed, Gibraltar saxifrage and Gibraltar thyme. The oomycete does not infect tomato, apple, potato, turnip, cauliflower, chickweed, groundsel, or corn spurry. Seed of the introduced common chickweed ("Stellaria media") and capeweed ("Arctotheca calendula") are also consumed. Cerastium alpinum, commonly called alpine mouse-ear or alpine chickweed, is a mat-forming perennial plant. Shetland mouse-eared chickweed or Edmondston's chickweed, is an endemic plant found in Shetland, Scotland.