diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index 211ecde3..41712e16 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                 "point meta max" => get_clims(sp)[2],
                 "point meta min" => get_clims(sp)[1],
                 "legend cell align" => "left",
-                "legend columns" => pgfx_legend_col(sp[:legend_position]),
+                "legend columns" => pgfx_legend_col(sp[:legend_column]),
                 "title" => sp[:title],
                 "title style" => PGFPlotsX.Options(
                     pgfx_get_title_pos(title_loc)...,