So long story short, there were "wild" plants just growing in the front and on the side of a house being worked on by a landscaping company and they were just ripping them out until I took some of them before since my friend told me to come pick them up. (The owner of the house did not care)...
The theory is that a guy who worked there recently got put in jail for growing so we think he threw the seeds in the dirt my friend's company uses to plant flowers etc.
And also the plants were dug up from under the roots with a shovel if that changes anything.