﻿AbstractAquilegia×miniana(J.F.Macbr. & Payson) Cronk,hybr. & stat. nov.is the correct name for the hybridAquilegiaflavescensS.Watson ×A.formosaFisch. & DC.var.formosa. In 1916 Payson and Macbride, while exploring the mountains of Idaho, found populations ofAquilegiathat were pink in flower colour and appeared intermediate between the yellow-floweredA.flavescensand red-floweredA.formosa. They named these plantsA.flavescensvar.minianaJ.F.Macbr. & Payson. There has been uncertainty over whether their type collections (inGH, RM, MO, US, E, CM, CAS, NY) do indeed represent hybrids or pink-flowered morphs ofA.flavescens. Using a Wells diagram, the holotype (in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University) is shown to be intermediate, allowing its identification as a clear hybrid. However, some of the isotype material is indistinguishable fromA.flavescens. The holotype matches material from British Columbia that has been determined to be of hybrid origin using molecular and morphological data.A.flavescensvar.minianaJ.F.Macbr. & Payson is, therefore, an available name for the hybrid, which is here raised to the status of hybrid binomial.