ID for white wildflower, please

[Debs]

[Dorts]

Hi Debs, welcome to WAB.
Your plant looks like Marsh Mallow - Althaea officinalis to me. It would be interesting to know where you found it, as it is by no means common..
Dorts.

[aeshna5]

Agree it's Marsh Mallow. Although native it's also grown as a native garden plant, so this may also be a possible origin.

Some years back I planted one near my pond. Some years later it had disapeared, but not before successfully self-sowing in a pavement crack near my compost bin, where it's flowered for a few years.

[Debs]

Hi Dorts & Aeshna5, many thanks to you both. I took this picture in mid july at RSPB Minsmere. Have just got interested in wild flowers, so will be posting quite a few for id, all help gratefully received.

[Dorts]

Debs. I can tell you that Marsh Mallow has been recorded at the RSPB Minsmere Reserve. A very good find.
Dorts.

[aeshna5]

Yes, I've seen it there + definitely wild in that situation. Also a good place for the scarce Marsh Sow-thistle which would be flowering now.

[Debs]

Thanks again to you both, I am thrilled with having seen something that is quite uncommon, has definately fed my enthusiasm for more.

[metalfish]

you can see marsh mallow and m. sowthistle on one of the footpaths that go out from Snape Maltings (near Minsmere) on the opposite side of the river to the maltings, it's the first time I've seen m. mallow in the wild.
and a beautiful plant it is too