The phrase "a small weed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of plant that is minor in size or significance, often in a gardening or ecological context.
Example: "In the garden, I noticed a small weed growing between the flowers that needed to be removed."
Alternatives: "a tiny weed" or "a little weed".
However, Vivek Bapat encourages leaders to act more like the dandelion, a small weed that lives an unremarkable, fleeting life.
In stark contrast to the banyan is a small weed that lives an unremarkable, fleeting life — the dandelion.
Mr. Navalho has begun to cultivate an exotic salad vegetable called salicorne, which is in fact a small weed with fleshy, tart, dark-green branches.
Dr. Blumwald isolated the gene for the protein from a thale cress plant, a small weed related to the mustard plant, and introduced it into the tomato via the nucleus of the seeds, which then made many more copies of the protein.
Bierman and co-founder Andrew Modlin started the company in 2010 after their PR agency, ModMan, was called in to build a website for a small weed shop.
Despite availability of GNTI-null mutant cgl1, Arabidopsis - as a small weed - is not suitable for high yield applications.
Benny has struggled with substance abuse and never finished high school; through a mutual friend, he scored a gig doing deliveries for a small-scale weed operation, dropping eighths and quarters throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan on his bike.
It is easier to pluck a few small weeds here and there than to tackle a jungle of weeds if you wait until they are larger.
Stemless, which provides compliant listing, check-out and delivery logistics for small weed merchants, deserves a shout-out.
Witchweed, a small parasitic weed (Striga asiatica), is widely distributed in Asia, southern Africa, and the Sahel.
— Standing alongside the 13th green at the Vineyard Golf Club on Martha's Vineyard, Jeff Carlson spotted a small broadleaf weed between his feet.
