It's possible you were seeing a bushy cousin of the Maple family...
When I visited Hawaii as a kid we took a tour of an electroplating factory. They would bronze and gold plate baby boots, seashells, starfish, etc... as well as a variety of Hawaiian plants.
My brothers each bought several gold plated leaves that were apparently Chinese Maple (at least that's what I remember the guy at the factory store telling us they were) - and they look just like grass leaves, except they have a few less lobes per leaf. They look so much like pot leaves in fact that this factory had been busted in the prior few months before we went there - they had all sorts of pictures of these leaves on the walls indicating they were for 'joke' use only and were not actually marijuana.
It's possible you were seeing something like that? Otherwise, you never can tell - there supposedly was a lot of ditch weed in some parts of California - and plenty of people to throw seeds out their car windows, etc. :P
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