[Touché Turtle]

Hello oh great wise collective!
I'm just getting to grips with my new lottie and clearing the ground. I found this little chap hiding under some long grass but have no idea what it is. I thought I'd ask you clever people here for some help. 

I had just removed a long pole stuck in the ground right next to the plant (you can see the resulting hole in the pic), so I'm not sure if it is a coincidence or is it something which needs to climb? It's also quite small, I included a corner of a glove in the photo for perspective.

Hope it's not just a weed, or I'm going to feel a bit daft!   

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

It almost looks like a chitted potato, but there are too many shoots, and it's too green?

[mumofstig]

I thought the top looked like a delphinium at first, but it seems to be growing from a large tuberus root - so I'm flumoxed 

[Touché Turtle]

The root definintely isn't a potato... and the little leaves are almost furry, with fine short hairs.

[Salmo]

It could be a hollyhock. That would certainly account for a stick to support it.

[New shoot]

I thik it might be Althaea officinalis or Marsh Mallow    Its the colour and soft downy look of the emerging leaves that makes me think that 

[sunshineband]

I thik it might be Althaea officinalis or Marsh Mallow    Its the colour and soft downy look of the emerging leaves that makes me think that 

The shape of the new leaves does look as though it could be a mallow of some sort