So, I've done this with a couple worlds and it repros 100% of the time. Just update a world from Pre-2 to Pre-3 and the grass in the chunk you initially load into will change color.
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duplicate of MC-166123
Well, I guess most of the time. It didn't do it on a world I've had around updating since old versions of MC.