Yes. It's just an example of bad taxonomy. "Apomictic species" are clones. Apomictic species are not clones. Clones do not exist in nature, because a clone, by definition, requires a human agent. Townsendia, for example, contains species which have sexual forms and apomictic forms. Why do bulbs create bulbils? (Rhetorical question, designed to dismiss out-of-hand the claim that asexual reproduction does not make a species.) Bob Nold Denver, Colorado, USA