Is there any way to get a better picture...?

It's dreadfully out of focus but has the appearance a spring ephemeral, so wild flower rather than weed perhaps.

I was trying to avoid picking it. But what I will do is dig it up , take a decent pic and transplant it.

No, no, no! Please don't pick or dig. I'd rather never know what it is than for you to do that. Most transplanted wild flowers die.

And could you tell us where it is growing?

Yeah please don't dig it. Stand something up behind it, like a open book, pillow, note pad, wheel of a wheelbarrow, boot, or your hand as mentioned above. Or use manual focus. Or crouch down low focus on the ground at the plants base and then swivel up and click an in focus picture...

I took the advice of jeeksl & added to it. I put a piece of white cardboard from a gift box behind it

and took some pics. Thanks for the clue jeeksl !

Anyway, here is the new pic without removing the plant from its home.

and another

one more

Oh yeh, almost forgot, it is growing in a road ditch in Appalachia, zone 5b

Better, but no cigar. The focus is still off, because your background is too far from the flower. Try your hand, a stick, or something that you can hold very close to the flower, and your shot should be crisp. I often use my walking stick (or a dead stick that the forest provides) to force focus. Whatever you choose, it should be almost touching the object.

Looks Ranunculaceae tho... Maybe Ranunculus hispidus or fascicularis?

It has been unusually dry here. So the leaf roll maybe from that. But I think some kind of Ranunculacea is on the right path. I also have two other plants I would like you to identify. I will post them below. The flowers on the first one are purple and the second one is some find of fern that creeps horizontally on the ground.

Last one - Lycopodiella prostrata?

According to the flora maps it doesn't extend as far north as I am . But their are many other Lycopodiella that do. So it helps tremendously knowing the genus. Thanks for posting, much appreciated. The purple flower plant has me stumped, I don't think its joe pye weed because of the leaf pattern. It also looks like it has thistle heads but no thorns. ?

I tried to google purple weed to id the plant and got nothing but pages and pages of marijuana pictures. That is so frustrating. I eventually quit looking because no matter how I tried to google in a way to avoid this I couldn't. Why is the internet so obsessed with pot ? Normally I don't get up on my soapbox but i felt the need to vent. I'm gonna have to bring out the old paper books and look in there.

Hm. You sure your camera doesn't have a manual mode? It makes focusing much easier. The purple one has leaves that resemble pedicularis... But I can't see the flowers clearly enough to rule out even asteraceae...

Back to to your original post, could it be caulophyllum thalictroides?

LOL, I tried it and you're right, I didn't even know purple marijauna was a thing. Had better luck searching for 'weed + purple flowers' However, are those flowers or just flower buds? Try looking at Packera (Ragwort). It used to be called Senecio, if you are looking in older books.

I like Caulophyllum thalictroides for the first one.

Agree with weed woman that the "purple" one has leaves like ragwort, if that is the case, the basal leaves will be a different shape... Like round/heart shaped and bigger. Plus the seed pods will turn fluffy kinda like a dandelion

The 1st plant I put up to be identified I have some more pics of. The center leaf is a 3 footed duck leaf type .

i have pulled the purple plant and taken some new pics. Since peeps say its a weed its not an issue to pick it. The actually flower appears to be yellow and what surrounds the flower is purple. These pics should be easier

is the picture above comfrey ?

Nothing shown is comfrey. We'd still need a clear picture of the open flowers for a Id on the yellow weed. Sorry.