"Patterson's curse" meaning in English

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          "text": "1905 J. H. Maiden, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, xvi.268, Quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN,\nThat ‘Paterson’s Curse’ produces some feed is undoubted, but it is a smothering, rough, coarse plant ... the vernacular name ‘Curse’ shows what many people think of it."
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          "ref": "1952, Glynde Nesta Griffiths, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, page 20",
          "text": "In spring the fields near the river are covered with beautiful mauve flowers, another pest, known as Patterson’s curse.",
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          "text": "1991, Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, Landscope: The Journal of the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, Volumes 7-9, page 42,\nA plant with tough seeds such as Patterson’s curse (Echium plantagineum) or caltrop (Tribulus terrestris) can easily be spread in this way, as can plants that reproduce vegetatively."
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          "text": "1995, John Marsden, A Killing Frost, 1998 US edition (originally published 1995, in Australia, as The Third Day, The Frost), unnumbered page,\nThey came swarming across the land, like locusts, like mice, like Patterson’s Curse."
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