Please identify!!!

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    Hi,

    I have spotted the attached plant growing near my place of work in a wildflower patch and they are overrun with bees - can somebody tell me what it is please? I love it!
     

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    Looks like some kind of bindweed? If you love it and the bees do, I'd keep it :) anything for the bees!
     
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    Looks like a lavatera to me (but I'm crap at identifying plants lol)
     
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      Looks like Lavatera to me too.
       
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        Mallow?
         
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        It's certainly one of the mallow tribe. Too early to be a shrub lavatera and the leaves are too big and floppy. Too early to be a hollyhock and the flower distribution is too loose. I think it's malva sylvestris, but not sure how early it flowers.
         
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