She is a real beauty, comes up in my garden every two years. the flowers are many different colors some years she grows to be four or five feet tall!
I'm not 100% sold on it being that particular species either, if the original photo was better it might be possible to be more definite.
I will try to post another picture . I do not believe it is an annual. I lived here for 7 years never planted any plants near the area , then one year i had about ten of them show up with the most beautiful flowers. an annual that waits many seasons to seed again? I pulled up this plant for 7 years before she flowered , sorry to me she is a "she" i love this plant , i tried to kill her for years but she hung on, she blossoms in mid to late August. she gets very tall about three or four feet tall.
Do impatients get 3 or 4 feet tall? This year I had only two some years i have ten or twenty plants show up here , this area is very shady under my house, northern exposure . Before i planted here it was mostly stones so i do not think it is a seed from an annual . does this picture help? thank you for your help. This is a view from the top of the plant, the red underneath is a new bloom not full yet . it lookes very much like the flower you posted but it has double the petals on the blossom maybe a double impatient of some type?
I looked it up, seems it is considered a "weed" umpf. they can get up to ten feet tall! it is a hardy plant seed can wait a couple of years to germinate it says. thank you so much for all your help! for years i asked around , then she didnt come then this year i got a couple of them so i decided to check again on the net! Your so very helpful. thanks again. i wonder if can buy a "weed" anywhere in New York.