Paterson,[1] (15 July, 1869, Port Elizabeth – 5 June, 1936, Redhouse) was a South African plant collector.

[2] After marriage Paterson made a comprehensive collection of the flora of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage area.

[6] Paterson sent her specimens mainly to the professor of botany at Rhodes University and curator (later director) of the Albany Museum, Selmar Schönland.

[2] In 1920s Paterson assisted the botanist Edith Stephens of South African College, collecting specimens of the region's stonecrop family, the charophytes.

[7] He also mentioned Paterson's contribution to collecting rare specimens in his letter to Sir David Prain in 1909,[8] and specifically thanked her in Volume 1 of his Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa (1919).