In the Houdini colorbar HDA under "color options", set the menus like this...


Details:

png file /svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/png/CB_BuGn_09.png
tex file /svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/tex/CB_BuGn_09.tex
definition /svs/share/houdini/cbars/definitions/color_brewer_seq/CB_BuGn_09.csv
credit Cynthia Brewer (Penn State)
reference https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3