Iris warleyensis is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Scorpiris. It is a bulbous perennial. It was first published by Michael Foster in 'Gardeners' Chronicle' Series 3, 261 of London' in 1902. Iris warleyensis is now the accepted name by the RHS. It was found in Bokhara in Eastern Turkestan in 1899, by a plant collector on behalf of the Van Tubergen nurseries in Haarlem, the Netherlands.Mr Foster then named it after 'Great Warley', the renowned gardener Ellen Willmott garden in Essex. It was later mentioned in the RHS Journal (later known as The Garden) 91.f 159 in 1966.